Sign Regulations in Maryland (2026)

Maryland bans placing any sign, including political campaign signs, within a State highway right-of-way under…

Annapolis exempts political signs from permits as temporary signs, capped at 32 square feet, displayed no more than 60…

Political signs are treated as temporary signs under county code: no permit needed, but size caps to 9 or 24 square…

Howard County allows political campaign signs up to nine square feet total per premises in residential districts and 32…

Political campaign signs are exempt from a sign permit but must sit at least 10 feet behind the street line and 50 feet…

Baltimore County's zoning code still prints a rule requiring political campaign signs to go up no earlier than 45 days…

Charles County exempts political campaign signs from any sign permit or fee under Zoning Ordinance § 297-320A, and…

Election and political campaign signs in unincorporated Wicomico County need no permit under § 225-125.F, but they must…

Washington County lets residents put up election signs without a zoning permit, imposing only one condition: the sign…

Anne Arundel County lets you skip a permit for a garage-sale sign, but it must sit on your own lot, stay under 9 square…

Baltimore County permits a homeowner two garage or yard sales per year as an accessory use, each no longer than a…

Frederick limits yard sale signs to two days before the sale and requires removal by 9:00 p.m. on the sale's last day…

Howard County's sign code has no special garage-sale sign category. Signs placed in County rights-of-way or attached to…

No permit needed for a garage sale sign, but the county's temporary right-of-way sign rules cap size, placement, and…

Garage and yard sale signs in unincorporated Wicomico County are limited to 4 square feet, one per street frontage, and…

Garage and yard sale signs need no City permit in Annapolis, but they can't be illuminated or project past the property…

Temporary yard sale signage is exempt from a sign permit under the 2022 Zoning Ordinance (Sec. 27-61502(c)(6)). No…

Gaithersburg exempts holiday and seasonal signs from permits under City Code § 24-8.4(A)(7): a temporary sign of 20…

Prince George's County exempts temporary holiday string lighting and displays from a sign permit, but only if they come…

Charles County doesn't require a sign permit or fee for holiday decorations under Zoning Ordinance § 297-320F, which…

Holiday lighting fixtures are fully exempt from Rockville's outdoor lighting shielding, aiming, and cutoff standards…

Holiday displays and lighting in unincorporated Wicomico County are listed in § 225-125.D as a permitted temporary…

Annapolis prohibits billboards outright, along with animated and flashing signs, closing off any path to a digital or…

Baltimore County bans video and digital display on outdoor advertising signs outright under BCZR § 450.7.C.7. The only…

Charles County prohibits the erection or construction of any new outdoor advertising sign or billboard, of any size…

Unincorporated Wicomico County bars any sign that moves, flashes or animates, a blanket rule that rules out digital and…

Gaithersburg bans billboard signs outright under City Code § 24-8.3(E). Electronic message display signs are allowed…

Harford County bans digital billboards outright: electronic message boards may only show on-premises content and are…

Digital billboards are banned countywide except as replacements for existing nonconforming billboards, and even then…

Electronic message boards are allowed alongside permitted signs in Anne Arundel County if each message displays for at…

Digital displays are allowed only in Downtown Columbia under Howard County Code § 3.502A, capped at 150 square feet…

Montgomery County limits how often an electronic or manually changeable sign display can update: no more than once…

Rockville allows electronic message center signs only as freestanding signs in the I-L zone and Mixed-Use zones other…

In unincorporated Anne Arundel County, an advertising sign commonly used in a retail business may fill a display window…

Baltimore County caps an interior enterprise window sign at 3 square feet and no more than three per front-facade…

Gaithersburg caps permanent window signs at 25 percent of a window's surface under City Code § 24-8.29, with temporary…

Howard County lets a business post unlimited interior window signs, but their combined area cannot exceed 20 percent of…

In Commercial/Residential, Employment, and Industrial zones, temporary signs placed in a window can cover no more than…

Rockville caps permanent and temporary window signs at 25% of the window surface, but a vacant non-residential…

Charles County limits how much of a window can carry signage. Temporary signs taped or posted inside a window or glass…

In Annapolis, window signs displaying merchandise, services, or matters of public interest inside a structure are…

Signs placed on the inside of store windows in unincorporated Carroll County are exempt from regulation under Zoning…

Harford County bans billboards within 660 feet of any interstate highway, on top of a 750-foot buffer from homes…

Howard County keeps freeway-facing billboards out of most of the county: they are permitted only as temporary…

Washington County bans new outdoor advertising signs entirely within 1,000 feet of nine named highway corridors…

Unincorporated Wicomico County bars outdoor advertising structures within 660 feet of named federal-aid highways like…