Sign Regulations in Arizona (2026)

Arizona state law preempts municipal restrictions on temporary political signs in public rights-of-way during election…

Goodyear regulates political yard signs the same way it regulates every other temporary residential yard sign: one per…

Mesa regulates signs under the Zoning Ordinance Article 5 (Sign Ordinance). Political signs on residential property are…

Under Pinal County's sign code, political signs may go on private property or in county-controlled rights-of-way if…

Political signs on private property are exempt from a sign permit in Yavapai County, but Zoning Ordinance Section…

Phoenix exempts political signs up to 32 square feet from a sign permit, but requires filing a responsible party's…

Queen Creek allows political and campaign signs in every zoning district without a sign permit under Section 7.5.C.4 of…

Sedona's sign code exempts political signs from its permit process and folds state election law straight into the Code…

Political signs in Chandler are protected under Arizona law (ARS 16-1019), which limits municipal authority to regulate…

Arizona strongly protects political signs. A.R.S. §16-1019 lets you place them in the public right-of-way from 71 days…

Gilbert's Land Development Code exempts political signs from its sign regulations altogether, deferring to the…

Arizona law (A.R.S. 16-1019) strongly protects political sign display and preempts local restrictions. In Glendale…

Arizona ARS 16-1019 protects the right to display political signs on private property. Marana may regulate size and…

Maricopa allows political signs in every zoning district and doesn't require a permit for them. Maricopa City Code §…

Political signs in unincorporated Maricopa County are regulated by the MCZO and Arizona state law (ARS 16-1019). Signs…

Arizona strongly protects political signs. Mohave County's sign ordinance exempts campaign signs in every zoning…

ARS 16-1019 preempts local regulation of political signs. Oro Valley residents may display political signs on private…

Arizona law (ARS 16-1019) broadly protects political sign display. Pima County allows political signs in residential…

Arizona law (HB 2500) restricts municipalities from enforcing local temporary sign laws against political signs during…

Arizona law (ARS 16-1019) protects the right to display political signs on residential property. Cities cannot prohibit…

Arizona law (ARS 16-1019) protects the right to display political signs on residential property. Tempe cannot prohibit…

Arizona state law (ARS 16-1019) broadly protects the display of political signs on private property and preempts local…

Arizona HB 2500 limits local regulation of political signs. Political signs up to 16 sq ft in residential, 32 sq ft in…

Gilbert allows up to three temporary signs for garage/carport/yard sales. Signs may be placed on private property but…

Pinal County's sign code exempts small signs from permits, but requires a sign permit before erecting any nonexempt…

Sedona lets residents post up to four temporary directional signs to point traffic to a garage or yard sale under SLDC…

Garage, yard and estate sale signs don't need a permit in Avondale under zoning ordinance section 28-202(a)(9), but…

Buckeye lets residents post one yard sign per street frontage for a garage sale without a permit, but every portable or…

Chandler lets a single-family lot post a small yard sign, up to six square feet and four feet tall, advertising a…

Garage and yard sale signs need no permit in Maricopa, but off-site directional signs are capped at ten per lot, six…

Chandler regulates inflatable figures, balloon sculptures and air-dancers as 'air-activated signs.' Nonresidential…

Buckeye exempts temporary seasonal holiday lighting from its exterior lighting code entirely, including the 11 p.m…

Peoria lets residents and businesses display holiday and seasonal decorations without a sign permit under City Code §…

Sahuarita bans permanent outline lighting on commercial and industrial buildings under Town Code § 18.82.060(L), but…

Unincorporated Yavapai County exempts low-lumen holiday decorative lighting from the county's shielding rules between…

Coconino County exempts holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting shielding rules, but only for a fixed window…

Gilbert's Land Development Code defines "sign" to exclude yard decorations from regulation entirely, so a seasonal…

Holiday lighting displays are automatically exempt from Maricopa's outdoor lighting code under Maricopa City Code §…

Yuma's citywide sign code exempts holiday decorations outright from sign permit and design requirements, but that…

Coconino County bans billboards outright in every zone under Section 4.2.B.2.A of the Zoning Ordinance. Electronic…

The Town of Gilbert's Land Development Code bans billboards outright, and the ban covers digital and electronic…

Goodyear bans billboards and off-site advertising signs outright citywide, while allowing only one on-site electronic…

Maricopa bans billboards outright citywide, but permits electric digital signs elsewhere under strict technical limits…

Electronic message signs, the LED changeable-copy displays used for digital billboards, are flatly prohibited anywhere…

Electronic message signs and digital billboards are banned throughout unincorporated Pinal County except for…

Queen Creek's Zoning Ordinance prohibits off-premises billboards outright and treats electronic displays that change…

Sedona bans electronic message signs, flashing or animated signs, and freestanding changeable-copy signs outright under…

Tucson allows billboards only on undeveloped C-2, C-3, I-1 and I-2 land, capped at six by twelve feet, but the Unified…

Yavapai County bars every sign from containing an electronic message device under Zoning Ordinance Section 601.A.2…

Avondale bans off-premise signs and variable message signs outright under zoning ordinance section 28-201(a)(4)-(5)…

Buckeye caps digital billboards at 0.3 footcandles above ambient light, requires automatic dimming, and forces an 11…

Digital billboards are effectively banned outside a handful of freeway-adjacent Planned Area Developments in Glendale…

Electronic message displays in Phoenix need a use permit and must hold each image at least 8 seconds with no scrolling…

Surprise permits digital billboards only inside a narrow stretch of the State Route 303 corridor, capped at 45 feet…

Tempe prohibits freestanding changeable-copy signs and flashing, animated, or intermittently illuminated signs…

Chandler's Sign Code lets businesses run digital or electronic message signs, but only with automatic light-sensor…

Unincorporated Maricopa County allows digital billboards only in C-2/C-3 zoning under MCZO Article 1103.3.1, with a…

Electronic billboards in Mesa's Billboard Overlay District must hold copy for at least eight seconds, cannot animate…

Peoria allows electronic message centers on permanent signs wherever changeable copy is otherwise permitted under City…

Sahuarita allows electronic message signs only as part of a monument or canopy sign in commercial and industrial zones…

Yuma caps digital billboard brightness at 6,500 NITS in daytime full-white mode, dropping to 342 or 300 NITS after…

Avondale allows temporary window signs without a permit only in commercial and employment zoning districts, capping…

Buckeye caps permanent window signs at 20% of window area and limits combined permanent-plus-portable window signage to…

Chandler's Sign Code lets businesses paint or post signs on window glass without a permit, but coverage can't exceed 25…

Retail and commercial businesses in unincorporated Coconino County can post window signs, but Section 4.2.C.1.J caps…

Gilbert's Land Development Code caps window signs at less than 25 percent of the window area they're displayed in…

A Goodyear storefront cannot wrap its entire window in signage: window signs, whether permanent or temporary, are…

Window and interior display signs in Maricopa's commercial and industrial districts can't exceed 50 percent of the…

Mesa caps window signs at 25% of the window area in most zoning districts and does not count them toward the maximum…

Window signs in Peoria need no permit under City Code § 21-709, Table 3, but non-residential window signage is capped…

Phoenix caps window signs at 30% of each ground-floor window's area, and bars them from glass doors entirely.

In unincorporated Pima County, a permanent window sign on a non-residential building can cover no more than 30 percent…

Sahuarita caps window signs at 30 percent of a tenant's window area in business and industrial zones under Town Code §…

Sedona caps window signage under SLDC Section 6.9.B(5)d. Permanent or temporary window signs cannot cover more than 25…

Surprise caps window signs at 40 percent of an individual window pane's area, and sunscreen graphics or murals also…

Window signs are allowed in every Tucson zone that allows wall signs, no permit needed, but they can never cover more…

Ground-floor window signs in Yuma's Old Town District are capped at 20% of the window area if permanent, while…

Glendale lets businesses cover up to 30% of a storefront window with signage without ever pulling a permit. UDC §…

Small interior window signs are exempt from Maricopa County's sign rules in unincorporated areas, but the exemption is…

Queen Creek allows window signage to cover up to 100% of a storefront's aggregate window area under Section 7.2.G, as…

Scottsdale caps window signs at one per use and nine square feet per window panel, and any sign placed within three…

Tempe caps window signs, Sign Type M, at 25% of a window's total area in commercial, industrial, and mixed-use…

Signs placed inside a building, including window signs meant to be seen from the street, are exempt from Pinal County's…

Signs displayed inside a building and viewed through a window face no permit requirement in unincorporated Yavapai…

Maricopa bans billboards outright and prohibits off-site advertising signs citywide under Maricopa City Code §…

Glendale requires a sign permit for every freeway-facing billboard and bans new static or digital billboards inside the…

Goodyear will not let a business simply put up a big sign facing I-10: a freeway pylon sign needs a discretionary Use…

Mesa allows large freeway-facing "Freeway Landmark Monument" signs only on commercial or industrial sites of at least…

Off-premise billboards near Phoenix freeways are capped to a short list of named routes and a 300-foot band from the…

Tempe only allows a freeway-facing freestanding sign, Sign Type E, on parcels within 300 feet of freeway right-of-way…

Gilbert's Land Development Code allows a dedicated Freeway Sign only on parcels of at least 15 net acres in Commercial…

In unincorporated Maricopa County, freeway-facing pylon signs are limited to C-S and C-2 zoning districts, capped at 65…

Freeway-facing monument signs in Peoria need a sign permit under City Code § 21-709, Table 2, and are capped at 250…

A freestanding sign in unincorporated Pinal County's CB-1, C-1 or O-1 zoning districts is capped at 12 feet, but PCDSC…

A Sahuarita business within 250 feet of a freeway right-of-way can put up a freeway style I sign under Town Code §…

Tucson allows a dedicated freeway sign only in general business and industrial zones within 250 feet of a freeway…

Free-standing commercial signs near an Interstate 17 or 40 interchange in unincorporated Yavapai County get a height…

Yuma restricts freeway-facing off-site signs to parcels zoned Light Industrial or Heavy Industrial that front a…

Scottsdale doubles the height and area allowed for on-premise commercial post-and-panel signs sitting behind a…