Southampton Village, NY Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Section 116-13I(4) sets the timing and location rules for political signs in the Village of Southampton, and § 116-13A defines a political sign as a sign promoting and/or endorsing a political candidate, political party or ballot referendum. A sign about a referendum therefore falls under the same window as a candidate sign.

The window is 70 days before an election and 10 days after it: political signs can be displayed for no more than 70 days prior to an election and 10 days after an election. Subsection I(4) sets no size limit and no cap on the number of political signs, and it requires no permit for a political sign.

Location is the other limit. Political signs shall be located off the Village right-of-way, which keeps them out of the Village-owned strip at the street edge.

Other Chapter 116 sign rules still apply. Section 116-13F(5) prohibits portable signs in all districts, and § 116-13A defines a portable sign to include a sign that is not securely affixed or anchored to the ground, a building or a structure, along with banners, pennants, streamers, spinners or other moving or fluttering devices. Section 116-13F(4) requires that illumination of any sign come from shielded, direct, external, white light sources not exceeding 75 watts. Section 116-13I(5)(b) lets a sign that is otherwise permitted carry a noncommercial message in place of the message the chapter provides for, subject to all other requirements, but it does not allow a noncommercial message to replace a prohibited billboard sign under § 116-13F(7).

Enforcement runs through § 116-40, which sends a conviction under Chapter 116 to the penalties in Chapter 1, Article II of the Village Code.