Warren, MI Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

13(d) of the sign ordinance exempts temporary election signs from the general sign permit requirement but tightly controls when they can appear and how big they can be. Signs may be erected on private property starting on the filing deadline date for the office sought, or, for elections and referendums without a filing deadline, sixty days before the earliest election date. Each candidate or issue gets two nonilluminated signs per lot frontage: up to sixteen square feet along a major thoroughfare or collector road, or up to six square feet along a local residential street.

26(c): candidates and property owners must take down temporary election signs within seven days after a primary, school, or special election, though a candidate who advances to the general election may keep signs up through that election and then has seven days to remove them. 26(a) and will send written notice to any candidate with signs still standing after the removal window; a candidate who does not comply within seven days of that notice is issued a civil infraction. Election signs are distinct from the ordinance's separately regulated opinion signs, which the code caps at three per residence and four square feet each in residential areas.