Valencia County, NM Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

166(C)(1) treats political signs as a specific category within the county's sign rules rather than folding them into the general permit table in division (A). A political sign advertising a candidate or a ballot issue can be erected on private property only by the owner or with the owner's consent, and only during an election campaign, which the code pins to a 90-day window before the election. The sign must come down within 10 days after the election, regardless of whether the underlying campaign continues in another race.

The section also requires political signs to conform to the requirements of the State of New Mexico, layering the state's own election-sign law on top of the county's timing window; the county provision does not relax or override whatever the state law separately requires. 166(B)(3) that every sign, even one that needs no permit, be kept in sound condition. The Valencia County Code Enforcement Department is the office the code designates to enforce Chapter 154, so a complaint about a sign left up past the 10-day post-election deadline is a matter for that department.