Taylorsville, UT Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Section 13.26.100(C)(6) of the Taylorsville City Code groups candidate and ballot-measure signs under 'temporary signs with noncommercial message,' which the sign code allows without a permit citywide. Any single sign is capped at 64 square feet of aggregate area, and all noncommercial signs on one property together cannot exceed 128 cumulative square feet; a freestanding sign cannot exceed 8 feet in height and cannot be erected in a manner that constitutes a roof sign. The signs may not be placed on public property, inside a public right of way, or anywhere they would impede traffic visibility or safety, and on roadways without curb and gutter they must sit at least 10 feet back from the edge of pavement.

A separate buffer applies near polling places: a temporary sign with a noncommercial message cannot be placed closer than 150 feet to a building where an official voting station is located. The ordinance also protects substitution rights: the owner of any sign otherwise allowed by the sign code, including a permanent business sign, may swap in noncommercial copy, such as a candidate endorsement, without any additional permit or approval, specifically to prevent the city from favoring commercial speech over noncommercial speech or one noncommercial message over another; those substitution provisions control over any more specific and conflicting provision elsewhere in the chapter. The code also makes clear these rules never ban handheld or personally attended signs with a noncommercial message in a traditional public forum.