Connecticut Political Signs: No State-Property or Highway Right-of-Way Placement

Connecticut has no statute singling out campaign signs, so content, size, and duration rules come from municipal zoning, not the state. The statewide constraint is Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 13a-123(a)(2), which prohibits erecting advertising signs, displays or devices on real property owned or in the custody or control of the state: that reaches state highway rights-of-way. The Commissioner of Transportation may order removal under subsection (j); if the owner ignores a mailed removal order for fourteen days, ConnDOT removes the sign and collects the cost. Subsection (k) sets a civil penalty of one hundred dollars for each day the violation continues, imposed only after a fifteen-day cure notice.

Signs on state-owned land or a highway right-of-way draw a written removal order; ignore it fourteen days and ConnDOT pulls the sign and bills the cost, plus a $100-per-day civil penalty after a fifteen-day cure notice.