Sign Regulations in Indiana (2026)

Indiana Code 32-21-13 prohibits homeowners associations and restrictive covenants from banning political yard signs…

LaPorte County bars illuminated on-premise or business political signs from residential zoning and from within 500 feet…

In unincorporated Allen County, political (noncommercial opinion) signs need no permit and have no limit on number. In…

Anderson defines a political sign as a temporary sign tied to an election or candidate. Residential signs, including…

Carmel regulates yard signs by size and placement, not by message, consistent with the First Amendment. Residential…

Evansville defines political and cause signs as 'First Amendment signs' and lets them go in the street right-of-way…

In unincorporated Lake County, the UDO's size and number limits on signs up to 32 sq ft are suspended from 60 days…

In the City of Muncie political signs are allowed in every zoning district without a sign permit, but Muncie City Code…

Tippecanoe County caps campaign signs at polling sites to two per candidate or issue, limits size to 36 by 24 inches…

Boone County exempts temporary campaign signs from its sign ordinance for a defined window: Code § 157.038(B)(6)(g)…

In the City of Noblesville, yard signs, including political signs, need no permit under § 159.167(A)(2)-(3) and are…

Porter County lets residents post political signs without a permit under UDO § 5.46 SI-01(O), but caps them at six feet…

Indiana law strips Vanderburgh County of any power to limit the number or size of political yard signs for the 60 days…

Fort Wayne bans any sign, including garage-sale signs, on public land such as utility poles, medians, and…

Allen County permits yard and garage sales on residential properties up to three times a year, up to three days each…

Garage-sale signs are temporary residential signs in Anderson. No Improvement Location Permit is required for…

Garage-sale signs fall under Carmel's residential temporary yard-sign rule: up to 16 square feet total per property, no…

In the City of Hammond, Indiana, garage and yard sale notices cannot be posted on city property such as light poles…

Unincorporated Lake County has no garage-sale-specific sign rule. A garage-sale sign is a temporary residential sign…

LaPorte County lets garage sale signs go up no earlier than seven days before the sale and requires them removed within…

Porter County treats a garage sale sign as a "standard temporary sign" under UDO section 5.47 (SI-02), capping it at 5…

Tippecanoe County requires every garage sale sign, along with sale items and display surfaces, to come down within 3…

Evansville allows a roughly six-square-foot temporary yard-sale sign in the yard or the sidewalk-to-curb strip…

If an Indianapolis garage sale is advertised with signs, Sec. 987-203(c) requires those signs to follow the number…

A permitted garage sale in Noblesville gets a city-issued sticker that must be placed on the temporary sign advertising…

Vanderburgh County doesn't set placement, size, or number limits for garage-sale signs, but Section 17.12.140(B)…

In the City of Hammond, Indiana, outdoor Christmas lights and decorations cannot go up before November 1 and must come…

Holiday lighting displays in Greenwood are exempt from the UDO's outdoor lighting standards during November, December…

The City of Bloomington's outdoor lighting ordinance exempts holiday lighting and seasonal decorations using typical…

Boone County's sign ordinance exempts holiday lights and decorations that carry no commercial message from sign…

Indianapolis's exterior lighting ordinance carves out an exception for temporary decorative seasonal lighting, so…

Indianapolis-Marion County's off-premises sign rules flatly ban video, LED, LCD and other electrically powered graphic…

Porter County's Unified Development Ordinance flatly bars electronic and lighted text on the changeable-copy signs it…

Bloomington's sign ordinance bans electronic reader boards outright unless they fit the narrow exception in Section…

Countywide, Clark County bans flashing, moving or intermittent lights (other than steady white) on any outdoor…

Off-premises electronic message signs in Evansville must sit 300 feet from any dwelling and hold each image at least…

Gary's sign code has no separate category for digital billboards, but its definition of a 'flashing sign', any…

Greenwood's Unified Development Ordinance caps electronic message sign brightness at 460 foot-candles by day and 46…

In the Innovation Mile District's event-center sign standards, a single electronic sign facing I-69 may be built within…

St. Joseph County allows electronic message center signs as part of a freestanding or building sign, capped at 40…

Tippecanoe County's Unified Zoning Ordinance treats a digital billboard as an "outdoor advertising sign" and limits how…

Vanderburgh County allows electronic message signs, including digital billboards, but locks down how they operate…

Unincorporated Wayne County, Indiana allows electronic and digital advertising signs only in its business and…

Greenwood exempts small window signs from a permit only if each one covers less than 10% of a window and no more than…

Window signs in Indianapolis's Commercial, Industrial and Mixed-Use zoning districts can cover no more than 30 percent…

In the City of Noblesville's Riverwalk, West Logan Street Corridor subdistrict of the Federal Hill Planned Development…

Porter County's Unified Development Ordinance caps permanent window signs in its Office and Institutional, Moderate…

St. Joseph County caps every window sign at 25 percent of the window's surface area under Zoning Ordinance § 154.377…

Boone County's sign ordinance exempts window signs, along with banners and flags, from the requirement that every sign…

Evansville allows window signs without a permit as long as they never cover more than 25% of a business's window area.

Vanderburgh County lets a business cover up to 25 percent of its window area with signage before a sign permit kicks…

Boone County Code § 157.205(Q)(2)(a) bans off-premise, outdoor-advertising signs anywhere in the I-65 Interstate 65…

Off-premise commercial signs facing the I-80/90 Toll Road and I-94 can run up to 672 square feet per facing in LaPorte…

Billboards are generally allowed in Tippecanoe County's GB, I1, I2 and I3 zones, but Footnote 67 to the Unified Zoning…

In the City of Greenwood, Indiana, off-premises billboards need a Plan Commission permit under UDO Sec. 10-03-08.M and…

Any sign within 660 feet of a freeway or expressway right-of-way in Indianapolis-Marion County sits in a 'Protected…

In the City of Noblesville, real estate signs on property fronting a limited-access highway do not need a permit, but…