Sign Regulations in Georgia (2026)

Georgia state law restricts placement of political and outdoor advertising signs on state highway rights-of-way and…

Clayton County bans posting any poster, sign or advertisement, political or otherwise, on or within the right-of-way of…

DeKalb County bans political posters, signs and advertisements in public rights-of-way and on public property, and…

Augusta-Richmond County exempts political signs of 32 square feet or less from sign permits, but requires removal…

Carroll County allows political signs in every zoning district ahead of an election under Code § 78-9, with no permit…

Columbia County's Chapter 90 sign ordinance regulates yard signs content-neutrally, but O.C.G.A. §16-7-58 protects…

On private property, O.C.G.A. §16-7-58 bars Coweta County, Newnan, and Senoia from limiting the number of political…

Floyd County Code § 2-11-54 keeps political signs off public streets, sidewalks and rights-of-way and requires any sign…

Political and other expression signs go up in Forsyth County without a permit, up to two per lot year-round. That cap…

Whitfield County's Unified Sign Ordinance allows political signs in every unincorporated zoning district, but caps…

Unincorporated Bartow County allows unlimited political signs on private property during a defined election cycle, from…

Rockdale County treats a political sign as an example of a 'free speech sign' under Sec. 230-4, and Sec. 230-17(d)(6)…

Roswell allows political signs without a sign permit under UDC § 10.3.16(K)(1), capping each sign at 32 square feet in…

Johns Creek treats political and campaign signs as content-neutral Standard Informational Signs under Zoning Ordinance…

South Fulton exempts political signs from the placement-duration limits that apply to every other temporary sign…

Columbus, Georgia has no garage-sale-specific rule; its general temporary-sign ordinance bars any temporary sign, a…

Carroll County lets residents place one temporary garage- or yard-sale sign per property under Code § 78-6(a)(1)e, but…

Cherokee County's zoning code has no sign category labeled 'garage sale,' but its weekend-sign rule at § 11.7(8)(c) is…

Clayton County lets you post 'weekend signs' (yard-sale and similar temporary signs) without a permit, but only from 6…

In unincorporated Cobb County, a garage-sale sign posted at your own residence is exempt from the sign permit process…

Decatur's Unified Development Ordinance treats yard and garage sale signs as "weekend directional signs." They are…

DeKalb County's zoning ordinance allows exactly two temporary signs for a yard sale, both on private property with the…

A garage sale sign in unincorporated Hall County qualifies as a "residential temporary sign" under UDC Sec. 8.6.4.F, so…

Unincorporated Rockdale County treats yard and garage sale signs as exempt 'weekend signs' under Code § 230-17(d)(5)…

Roswell requires a temporary sign permit for yard and garage sale signs under UDC § 10.3.22(B), capping each sign at 4…

Warner Robins garage-sale signs fall under chapter 6's general sign code via zoning section 95.8.5: they cannot be…

Coweta County lets a homeowner put up a temporary yard-sale sign under a general permit, no application needed, as long…

Macon-Bibb County treats a yard or garage sale sign as a temporary sign under Section 25.04[4], allowing up to three…

A garage or yard sale sign in unincorporated Whitfield County can go up no more than two days before the sale starts…

Johns Creek has no separate garage-sale-sign category. Yard/garage-sale signs are content-neutral Standard…

Atlanta's sign ordinance flatly bans inflatable signs and balloons as a display category citywide, but lights and…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County caps holiday and promotional inflatables at 20 feet tall and 150 square feet in…

Paulding County bans strings or rows of lights within 150 feet of a street under § 67-17(3), the same rule that stops…

Macon-Bibb County bans flashing lights and light festoons that outline property lines, rooflines, doors, or windows…

South Fulton bans strings of lights within 150 feet of a street right-of-way as a prohibited sign, but carves out a…

Augusta-Richmond County exempts holiday decorations from its sign ordinance entirely: no permit, size cap, or removal…

Cherokee County exempts low-wattage holiday decoration lights from every requirement of its Outdoor Lighting and Road…

Columbus, Georgia's sign code exempts holiday lights, decorations, and displays with no commercial message from…

Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance exempts temporary holiday lighting entirely from the City's outdoor…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, seasonal holiday decorations are excluded from the sign code's definition of a 'sign,'…

Temporary holiday lighting is exempt from Fulton County's Night Sky Ordinance shielding and fixture standards in the…

Temporary holiday lighting is expressly exempt from Roswell's outdoor lighting shielding and lamp-type rules, so…

Whitfield County's sign code exempts holiday decorations entirely from Chapter 16's size, placement, and permit rules…

Unincorporated Bartow County prohibits digital and LED billboards outright under the Zoning Ordinance's sign code. Any…

Decatur's UDO bans digital, animated and flashing signs, along with billboards, outright citywide. Sec. 7.3.9 lists…

Digital billboards cannot exist in unincorporated Fayette County because billboards, any sign over 60 square feet, are…

Fulton County's sign ordinance flatly bars changeable-copy signs from using changing lights or electronic images…

Roswell's Unified Development Code bans electronic changeable-copy signs outright, allowing only manually changed copy…

Acworth confines digital billboards to the Highway 41 and Highway 92 corridor districts, and Sec. 74-44(14) requires…

Atlanta restricts billboards to I-1 and I-2 industrial zoning and closely regulates electronic message changes: each…

Digital signs are tightly boxed in unincorporated Cherokee County: Zoning Ordinance § 11.5-5(i) bans them from…

DeKalb County limits digital and electronic signs to commercial and industrial zoning districts, bans them in historic…

Dunwoody permits electronic message center signs only at gas stations, quasi-public/institutional uses and in the…

Electronic message boards in Forsyth County are zoned out of residential areas entirely: they're allowed only in…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County bans new billboards outright but lets owners convert an existing non-conforming…

New billboards are banned outright in unincorporated Hall County under UDC Sec. 8.6.18, but Sec. 8.6.19.C allows…

Electronic signs in unincorporated Houston County only go in C-1, C-2, C-3, M-1 and M-2 districts, and Section 97.13…

A digital billboard in Macon-Bibb County, called a 'multiple message billboard' under the sign code, is permitted by…

Marietta strictly limits new billboards to the Interstate 75 corridor, and digital billboards face an added layer of…

Paulding County caps digital and electronic message signs at 120 square feet of sign face and limits how fast their…

Whitfield County allows electronic message boards, the code's term for digital or LED sign displays, as the only sign…

Augusta-Richmond County treats electronic message boards, what the zoning ordinance calls 'Reader Boards' or Commercial…

Clayton County allows LED 'Electronic Multiple Message Signs' under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 8.20, but each message must…

Cobb County caps electronic sign brightness at 0.30 footcandles above ambient light and requires static messages held…

Columbus, Georgia allows digital billboards in GC, LMI, and HMI districts but requires each message to hold for at…

Coweta County treats any conversion of a sign to LED, tri-vision, or similar changing-image technology as a sign permit…

Digital and electronic message signage in unincorporated Floyd County is regulated through the general sign…

Rockdale County allows digital billboards as 'multiple message billboards' under Code § 230-21(i), but each message…

Digital and LED billboards in South Fulton must show only static images (no video, scrolling, or flashing) when visible…

Electronic signs are allowed only in commercial and industrial districts in unincorporated Walton County, and the…

Electronic message displays on Warner Robins signs are capped, not banned. City Code Sec. 6-288 limits LED technology…

In Atlanta, illuminated or electronically changing window signs cannot cover more than 30% of the window or door, must…

Window signs in unincorporated Bartow County are capped by zoning district: residential districts (A-1, RE-1, RE-2, R-1…

Cherokee County defines a window sign as any sign placed inside or upon a window and intended to be seen from outside…

In the East-West Corridor Overlay District's OI, UV and GB zoning districts, Clayton County caps window signage at 10…

Unincorporated Cobb County caps window signage at 50 percent of the glass surface on each individual pane, whether the…

Columbia County caps window signage at half the glass: section 90-135(v)(7) says window signs placed on, inside, or…

Coweta County caps window signs at 25 percent of a storefront's total glass area or 16 square feet, whichever is…

Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance caps how much of a storefront window a business sign can cover: a…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, a window sign cannot cover more than 30% of the window area it is displayed on or…

Dunwoody caps window and door signs at less than 30 percent of the area of a windowpane in every office, commercial and…

Residential properties in unincorporated Fayette County may post no more than three window signs, and each one is…

In unincorporated Floyd County, a window sign is legally a building sign under the Unified Land Development Code, and…

In unincorporated Forsyth County, a window sign on a commercial or industrial lot may not exceed 30 percent of the…

In unincorporated Gwinnett County, window signs for any single tenant cannot cover more than 20 percent of that…

A window sign in unincorporated Hall County, meaning any sign attached to the interior or exterior face of a window…

A window sign in unincorporated Houston County cannot cover more than 30 percent of the window area it is displayed on…

Johns Creek caps window signage at 25 percent of a business's aggregate window area under its sign ordinance, with only…

In Marietta's nonresidential districts, window signs can't cover more than 50% of a business's windows overall, and no…

Warner Robins caps window signs at fifty percent of the window's surface area and lets businesses skip the sign permit…

In Columbus, Georgia's nonresidential zoning districts, a sign inside a building or attached below the roofline…

In unincorporated Fulton County's commercial and mixed-use districts, a business may post no more than three window…

Unincorporated Rockdale County lets window signs cover up to 30 percent of the window area of a building elevation…

Roswell caps window signs at 30% of the window's area and allows them without a sign permit under UDC § 10.3.16(E). A…

South Fulton limits window signs in agricultural and residential districts to three per lot, with each sign capped at…

Retail, restaurant and personal service businesses in unincorporated Walton County can cover no more than 25 percent of…

Acworth's sign code exempts window signs from the city's sign permit process outright. Sec. 74-3(b) lists them among…

Macon-Bibb County exempts window signs from permitting entirely. Section 25.04[1] of the Land Development Resolution…

Paulding County places no size cap or permit requirement on window signs. Code of Ordinances § 67-6(6) exempts window…

Along the limited-access stretch of Georgia 400 in Forsyth County, freeway-facing signage is banned outright. Section…

Marietta bans new billboards everywhere except within 100 feet of the Interstate 75 right-of-way, and even there they…

Atlanta bans animated, flashing, changing, and rotating signs within 660 feet of any limited-access freeway or…

Augusta-Richmond County treats any billboard within 660 feet of an Interstate right-of-way as part of the Interstate…

A billboard visible from I-75, I-285 or I-675 in unincorporated Clayton County must sit within 660 feet of the highway…

In unincorporated Hall County, billboards visible from a divided four-lane highway or a limited or controlled access…

Billboards, ground signs of 401 to 672 square feet aimed at interstate traffic, are permitted only on lots abutting…

Unincorporated Walton County allows only one highway-oriented sign per property, capped at 300 square feet and 35 feet…

Billboards in unincorporated Whitfield County are allowed only along the Interstate I-75 corridor and six named Georgia…

Bartow County bans any sign on private property within 50 feet of the Interstate 75 right-of-way, five times the…

Columbus, Georgia's billboard ordinance keeps outdoor advertising structures at least 500 feet from any interchange…

High-rise buildings ten stories or taller that are visible from I-85, I-985, US-78 or SR-316 in Gwinnett County may…

Freeway- and highway-facing billboards in South Fulton can only be located along and oriented toward state-numbered…