Rocklin, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Chapter 17.80, adopted by Ordinance No. 1006 in 2014, governs signs on city property in the City of Rocklin, treating the city as acting in its proprietary capacity under California Government Code Sections 65850(b), 38774 and 38775. Section 17.80.040 lets private persons display noncommercial message signs, including political and campaign signs, in traditional public forum areas: city-owned parks, the surfaces of city-owned streets, and sidewalks in the city's circulation system, plus the sidewalks around the City Hall Complex perimeter (but not its interior). The sign must be personally held, or personally attended by someone within five feet of it at all times.

Display is limited to sunrise-to-sunset hours, except during a city council or other public body meeting, when the window extends to thirty minutes after adjournment. A single person's signs may total no more than six square feet in aggregate; a sign personally attended by two or more people may run up to twenty-four square feet on one side. Signs must have no more than two faces and cannot be inflatable or air-activated. Holders may not stand in a vehicular travel lane, must leave five feet of sidewalk clearance for pedestrians, and cannot block a corner's forty-five-foot sightline 'visibility triangle.' Any unauthorized sign on city property outside these rules may be summarily removed under Section 17.80.030 and 17.80.090 as a trespass and public nuisance, with removal costs billed to the person who posted it and a post-removal hearing available before the community development director.