Macon-Bibb County, GA Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

Section 25.04 lists the signs and displays that Macon-Bibb County lets property and business owners put up without applying for a sign permit, and item [1] covers window signs outright: "Window signs or any signs or displays on the inside of a building, regardless of whether such signs or displays are visible from outside the building." Because the exemption is written around location, inside the building, rather than around size, message or duration, a business can change its interior window signage as often as it likes without returning to the zoning enforcement officer for a new permit, and none of that signage is counted against the maximum aggregate sign area a property is otherwise allowed under Section 25.06 for freestanding and building signs.

The Resolution separately defines a "window sign" in Section 25.02[48] as "a sign painted or affixed directly on the glass or window of a building wall," and that definition, combined with the broader "inside of a building" language in Section 25.04[1], covers both paint-on-glass signage and posters, banners or merchandise displays set up just inside a storefront window. The exemption has limits worth noting: it removes the permit and sign-count requirement, but window signage still has to comply with other applicable parts of the Resolution, such as the illumination standards in Section 25.09 if a window sign is lit, and it does not extend to freestanding, wall, projecting or roof signage mounted on the building's exterior, all of which remain separately regulated and, in most zoning districts, permit-required signage.