Sedona, AZ Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Sedona's sign code lists political signs among its exempt signs in SLDC Article 6, meaning they do not need a City sign permit. 8(L) states two things. First, the City encourages placement that limits the negative aesthetic effects of numerous large political signs, tying the provision to Sedona's stated vision of enhancing its natural beauty, the same interest that drives the Code's dark-sky and hillside-preservation rules elsewhere in Article 6. S. Section 16-1019, folding Arizona's statewide political-sign statute directly into the local Code rather than setting independent local size or timing limits.

That state statute bars a city, town or county from removing, altering, defacing or covering a political sign placed in a right-of-way it controls, but only while the sign supports or opposes a candidate or ballot measure and only during a protected window: from 60 days before a primary election until 15 days after the general election, or 15 days after the primary for a candidate who does not advance. Outside that window, or once a sign no longer supports a candidate or measure on an active ballot, the state protection lapses and the sign can be treated like any other unpermitted temporary sign under the rest of Article 6. Sedona did not add its own size or setback limits for political signs in the SLDC; it deferred entirely to the state timetable.