Sign Regulations in Louisiana (2026)

Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1462 prohibits campaigning, electioneering, and political signs within 600 feet of any…

Ascension Parish treats a political sign left in a public right-of-way as litter, not protected yard art. Parish Code §…

The City-Parish UDC regulates political and other yard signs as content-neutral temporary signs: no more than two per…

Lafayette's sign code treats political signs as content-neutral temporary signs: no message-based limits, but size…

New Orleans limits political campaign signs on the public right-of-way to a tight window: Sec. 134-122(1) of the Code…

Shreveport treats political signs as yard signs: permitted in every zoning district, no permit, no cap on how many. The…

St. Tammany Parish requires a temporary sign permit from the department of planning and development before anyone…

Unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish bans campaign signs on any highway, right-of-way, median or sidewalk, notifies…

Terrebonne Parish Code § 14-26 defines political campaign signs posted on parish-owned property or within public road…

Jefferson Parish exempts temporary political signs from its sign permit process entirely, but caps each one at 32…

Garage, rummage, yard, craft and boutique sale signs cannot go on any public property in Jefferson Parish, including…

In unincorporated Ascension Parish, a garage sale sign counts as litter the moment it sits in a public right-of-way…

Garage-sale signs fall under the City-Parish UDC temporary-sign rules: up to two per lot, six square feet each on a…

In the City of Lafayette, yard-sale signs can't sit on public property, in the right-of-way, or block sidewalks and…

New Orleans lets garage, moving, and rummage-sale signs go up in the public right-of-way, but Sec. 134-122(3) of the…

Shreveport lets you post one garage sale sign on the property holding the sale, with no permit. Off-premise directional…

A residential garage or yard sale in Caddo Parish gets one extra temporary sign under Unified Development Code Section…

Ouachita Parish requires temporary signs, including residential garage-sale signs, to come down within 5 days of the…

Caddo Parish's Unified Development Code excludes temporary holiday decorations from its definition of "attention…

Shreveport has no ordinance governing holiday decorations, no seasonal date windows and no removal deadline. The UDC…

Unincorporated Ascension Parish tightly restricts off-site billboards under UDC Section 17-2087: new replacement…

New billboards, static or electronic, are banned parish-wide except in specific commercial and industrial districts…

Off-premises digital billboards using electronic variable message technology in Jefferson Parish must sit at least…

Lafayette allows an existing billboard face to convert to digital only if the owner removes at least twice as much…

Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government allows a nonconforming billboard face to convert to digital only if the…

Lake Charles effectively bans freestanding digital billboards: Sec. 24-5-211 permits only Monument or Wall Signs…

Shreveport allows new electronic billboards only in C-2, C-3, C-4, I-1 and I-2 districts or within 660 feet of an…

St. Tammany Parish caps electronic variable message (EVM) signs at one per development site and bans them outright in…

Off-premise digital billboards in unincorporated Bossier Parish cannot exceed .3 footcandles over ambient light and…

Community landmark signs, the parish's digital billboard structures along I-12 and I-55, may run their electronic…

Terrebonne Parish allows electronic billboards to display static time, date and temperature information, but Parish…

Storefronts inside Jefferson Parish's Fat City Mixed-Use districts (FC-1, FC-2, FC-3) cannot cover more than 25 percent…

In the City of Lafayette, combined temporary and permanent window signs can cover up to 50% of a window's total area…

Businesses in unincorporated St. Tammany Parish do not need a sign permit for a temporary window sign, but Sec…

In unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish's commercial, unzoned and rural districts, a window sign cannot cover more than 20…

Window signs need no permit in Caddo Parish, but Unified Development Code Section 9.6.C.11 caps coverage at 30% of each…

Lafayette lets businesses cover up to half their window glass with signage before needing a sign permit. Sec…

Window signs need no permit in Shreveport, but they are not unlimited. UDC Section 9.6 caps every window sign…

Rapides Parish bans off-premises billboards visible from Interstate 49's main travelled way anywhere in the…

New billboards in Shreveport are confined to commercial and industrial corridors that sit within 660 feet of a federal…

On-site commercial signs in unincorporated Ascension Parish are capped at 20 feet under UDC Section 17-2086, but the…

Off-premise signs oriented toward a raised expressway in unincorporated Bossier Parish may rise to whichever is taller…

Jefferson Parish treats signs near its interstates differently in both directions: off-premises billboards are barred…

Lafayette's sign code allows pole signs up to 75 feet tall in CH, IL, and IH districts when built within 1,000 feet of…

In unincorporated Tangipahoa Parish, off-premises signs facing the interstate system must sit at least 1,000 feet apart…