Spalding County, GA Sign Regulations: Window Signs (2026)

Spalding County's sign ordinance defines a window sign in Sec. 250 as any sign placed inside or upon a window, and Sec. 513 sets the actual limit: window signs are permitted only in the C-1, C-1A, C-1B, C-1C, C-2, C-3 and O-I zoning districts, and in those districts a window sign cannot cover more than fifty percent of the area of the window glass it's placed on. That fifty-percent cap is generous compared with most sign categories because Sec. 513 also excludes window signs from the total sign area allowed per establishment under the sign table, so a business can run window signage up to the fifty-percent limit without eating into its wall-sign or freestanding-sign allowance.

Outside those seven commercial and office-institutional districts, window signs aren't part of Sec. 513's allowance at all; Article 8(P) permits only identification window signs, meaning signs that identify the premises without a commercial message, without a permit, and that limited category is the only window signage available in residential and agricultural districts. Neon-lit window signs get an additional restriction under Sec. 510.D: neon lighting is authorized only in the C-1, C-1B and C-1C districts, and even there it may be used only as a window sign, not as any other illuminated sign type.