Rohnert Park, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Public property/right-of-way
- Campaign signs prohibited
- Private property
- Owner or occupant consent required
- Removal deadline
- 10 days after the election
- Responsible parties
- Placer, owner, and occupant, jointly
- Governing section
- RPMC § 17.27.050(J)(2)
Summary
Rohnert Park bars campaign signs from all public property and the public right-of-way, requires the private property owner's consent to post one anywhere else, and gives everyone who placed, owns or occupies the property ten days after the election to take it down.
2.Campaign Signs. Such signs are subject to the following:a.Campaign signs are not permitted on any public property or within any public right-of-way. ... b.Any campaign sign placed upon privately owned property must receive consent of the owner or occupant thereof.c.All campaign signs must be removed within ten days after the day of the election to which it pertains. The person or organization placing the sign and the owner and the occupant of the premises upon which the sign is placed are each responsible for the removal of such signs.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 51 Update 2).
Full Breakdown
050(J)(2), "Campaign Signs," governs. Campaign signs are flatly not permitted on any public property or within any public right-of-way; to help the public tell the difference, the city manager makes available a map of publicly owned real property, and where the line between public and private property is unclear, the city's designated sign enforcement authority asks the nearest adjacent private property owner whether permission was given. If that owner says no, the code conclusively presumes the sign was posted illegally. On private property, a campaign sign must have the consent of the property owner or occupant before it goes up.
Removal is mandatory within ten days after the day of the election the sign pertains to, and the code spreads responsibility across everyone connected to the sign: the person or organization that placed it, the property owner, and the occupant of the premises are each on the hook for taking it down. 050 exempt-signs list, no sign permit is required to post one as long as it stays off public property and complies with the owner-consent and ten-day removal rules.
Violations & Fines
If the city has to send its own employees to remove a campaign sign left up past the ten-day post-election deadline or posted on public property, Section 17.27.050(J)(2) lets the city hold any or all of the placing party, the property owner, and the occupant responsible for the removal costs. Section 17.27.130 additionally makes any Chapter 17.27 violation an infraction under the Chapter 1.16 General Penalty and allows nuisance abatement under Chapter 1.24.
Frequently Asked Questions
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