Sign Regulations in Michigan (2026)

Michigan election law universally prohibits political signs and electioneering within 100 feet of any polling place…

Dearborn treats political signs like any other temporary sign: no permit needed, but capped at 9 square feet per side…

The City of Dearborn Heights allows political signs advertising a candidate, election or ballot question up to 4.5…

Detroit lets residential properties post portable temporary signs, including campaign signs, only from 30 days before a…

Flint caps temporary political signs at 6 square feet in residential districts (32 in commercial/industrial), allows…

Kent County itself does not regulate political signs. Size and removal rules are set by your city, village, or…

Lansing allows extra temporary signs around elections, capped at six square feet and three feet tall, banned from the…

In Royal Oak Township, Michigan, a political sign is limited to 16 sq. ft., 10 ft. in height and two signs, in all…

Southfield caps political signs at thirty-two square feet, bars them from any public right-of-way, and limits how long…

Sterling Heights regulates campaign and political signs the same as any other temporary sign: up to 9 square feet total…

Warren allows two nonilluminated election signs per candidate or ballot issue on each lot frontage, sized up to sixteen…

Westland bans posting political signs, along with handbills and other advertising matter, on streets, sidewalks, trees…

Political signs in Wyoming, Michigan need no sign permit, but they must stand outside the public street right-of-way…

Kalamazoo's Zoning Ordinance defines an election campaign sign at Kalamazoo City Code § 12.3 as one that advocates or…

Novi treats political yard signs as protected noncommercial speech rather than a separately licensed sign category…

In the City of Pontiac, the Zoning Ordinance treats campaign and ballot-issue signs as "opinion signs" and lets them go…

Rochester Hills lets residents and businesses put up larger temporary signs, including political and ballot-issue…

In the City of Royal Oak, political signs are defined and treated as temporary signs under Chapter 607, permitted at…

Political signs are allowed in every zoning district in the City of Taylor, Michigan without a sign permit, capped at…

In the City of Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Michigan, Section 827.04 allows one garage sale sign on the sale premises…

Dearborn bans garage-sale signs on public property, and on private property without the owner's consent, and requires…

Detroit regulates a garage-sale sign as a temporary sign under the sign code: one per property, a permit, a size cap as…

Flint restricts garage sale signs to the day before the sale begins and requires compliance with the City's zoning sign…

Lansing allows garage and yard sale signs on public right-of-way starting two days before the sale and requires removal…

Livonia allows only one sign per garage sale, capped at six square feet and unlit except by ambient street or house…

In Royal Oak Township, Michigan, a garage sale sign in a residential district is limited to 2 sq. ft. and 5 ft. in…

When the Southfield city clerk issues a garage sale permit, the clerk also hands over the official sign: a…

Garage sale and open house signs in the City of Taylor, Michigan need a sign permit and are capped at 6 square feet and…

Troy lets garage-sale and other short-term signs go up without a permit, but only under Sec. 85.03.02's limits: 14…

Warren permits one garage sale sign per residence without a permit, capped at four square feet and placed only in the…

West Bloomfield Township only allows township-issued garage sale signs, capped at five per sale township-wide, under…

Westland limits yard sale signs to six square feet, five feet tall, three per sale, and bans placement in the…

The City of Dearborn Heights allows garage, rummage, yard, attic, flea market, estate and lawn sale signs up to 3…

The Village of Shelby allows one on-site sign per casual sale, capped at six square feet and non-illuminated, plus up…

Garage and estate sale signs in the City of Wyoming, Michigan are exempt from a sign permit under Zoning Ordinance…

Dearborn allows inflatable holiday decorations in residential yards for up to 60 consecutive days at a time, but…

Grand Rapids allows seasonal string lighting on homes and buildings without a Director Review permit, but only inside a…

The City of Novi exempts holiday decorations from its sign permit rules, but only for a limited run. City Code Section…

In Royal Oak Township, Michigan, holiday displays on signs fall under the community special event sign row of the…

Westland allows temporary holiday and seasonal decorations for up to 90 consecutive days, after which they must come…

Wyoming, Michigan's zoning sign ordinance bans commercial string lights outright, but Sec. 90-704's prohibited-signs…

The City of Dearborn Heights bans exterior string lights on a commercial premises under its sign chapter's list of…

Sterling Heights bans flashing or intermittent exterior lighting citywide under its zoning code, but the same section…

Warren lets residents put up a temporary holiday sidewalk display for free, but they must first get a permit from the…

Holiday decorations are exempt from Lansing's exterior lighting shielding and foot-candle standards, though the Zoning…

Livonia's Zoning Ordinance bans "Festoons, air-activated signs, and balloon signs" citywide, but Section 11.05(4)…

Zoning Ordinance § 5.103.L exempts seasonal decorations in the City of Pontiac from the sign code entirely, so long as…

In the City of Royal Oak, the sign code's ban on string lights and permanent architectural window and door lighting…

Southfield exempts holiday lighting from its sign and building-lighting rules entirely. Southfield City Code §…

Troy's outdoor lighting curfew, foot-candle caps and shielding rules do not apply to holiday decorations. Section…

The City of Dearborn Heights bans the installation of any billboard, defined as a freestanding sign over 200 square…

Livonia bans billboards outright under Zoning Ordinance No. 3160, Section 11.09, covering any off-premises outdoor…

Billboards, digital or otherwise, are banned in Sterling Heights outright, with only a narrow carve-out for signs…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, Section 1263.10(b)(6) bars billboards from flashing, blinking or oscillating…

Detroit bars dynamic (digital) advertising signs, billboards, in the Central Business District except inside the…

Grand Rapids caps digital billboard conversions in its freeway Upgrade Eligibility Zone at 10 faces citywide, split…

In the City of Kalamazoo, internally illuminated LED billboards are allowed only as replacements for existing large…

Novi allows digital and changeable-copy signage only under tight technical limits. City Code Section 28-5(g) caps…

Zoning Ordinance § 5.105.G.12 in the City of Pontiac lets an owner convert one static billboard to an electronic…

In the City of Royal Oak, electronic message centers are permitted only in Sign Area 2 under Section 607-6D, and only…

In Royal Oak Township, Michigan, off-premises advertising signs, which include billboards, are allowed only in the M-1…

Warren limits every property to one electronic message center, a digital sign face that can change its message by…

Wyoming, Michigan lets off-premises billboards run digital, LED electronic message centers, but Sec. 90-709(8) makes it…

Dearborn caps on-premise electronic signs at 24 square feet, bans off-premises billboards outright except under…

Electronic message center signs in Lansing must dim automatically, go dark near homes at night, and stay under 20 to 32…

Rochester Hills does not allow traditional off-premises billboards, but its sign ordinance permits electronically…

In the City of Southfield, one electronic changeable copy sign is permitted per development where ground signage is…

In the City of Taylor, Michigan, changeable message signs and electronic reader boards are limited to 25 square feet…

Troy allows electronic message signs, digital billboards, only as a ground sign, capped at 50 square feet and limited…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, window signs in commercial and industrial districts cannot exceed 30% of the…

Window signs in Clinton Township can't cover more than half the glass they're posted in. Section 1488.02(r) caps a…

Dearborn limits temporary window signs to 30 percent opaque coverage per window for up to 30 days without a permit…

In commercial sign-control districts of the City of Dearborn Heights, interior business signs displayed in a window…

Detroit caps window signs at 25% of the window's area in most districts, rising to 50% for vinyl mesh signs, with an…

Grand Rapids limits painted, stenciled, or applied window signs to no more than 25 percent of the window, door, or…

Lansing caps window signage at 20 percent of the glass area visible from outside, whether that is a single pane or the…

Livonia's Zoning Ordinance treats window signs district by district. Section 11.08(2) caps them at a "Maximum Area: 20%…

Zoning Ordinance § 5.103.Q lets any City of Pontiac business cover up to 25 percent of its window area with signage…

Rochester Hills caps window signs, whether temporary or permanent, at 25 percent of a storefront's total glazed area…

In the City of Royal Oak, window signs are capped by percentage of window area rather than banned outright. Sign Area 2…

In Royal Oak Township, Michigan, the total of all window signs, temporary and permanent, cannot exceed one-third of the…

Window signs in Sterling Heights cannot exceed 25% of the glass area of the facade they're displayed on, and no window…

In Troy's Big Beaver, Maple Road, and Neighborhood Node districts, window signs cannot swallow the glass area the…

Warren caps total window signage at 50 percent of a window's area, with illuminated window signs, including interior…

Westland limits temporary window signs to storefronts under 10,000 square feet, and caps combined temporary and…

Wyoming, Michigan lets businesses in the B-1, B-2, B-3, RO-1, I-1, I-2 and I-3 districts display permanent and…

In the City of Kalamazoo, City Code § 50-9.5(G) caps window signs at 25% coverage of ground-floor windows and 30%…

Detroit bans placing or carrying any advertising sign, material, or commercial message on a freeway overpass where it…

Troy bans off-premise signs, the billboard-style, freeway-facing signs advertising a business not located on the site…

In the City of Battle Creek, Michigan, Section 1263.10 limits billboards to Agriculture, B-1, I-1 and I-2 districts…

Clinton Township confines billboard signs to one place: parcels in the I-2 General Industrial District that abut an…

Within 600 feet of any freeway, Flint bans outdoor signs except limited point-of-sale signs: including one…

Grand Rapids designates an Upgrade Eligibility Zone for off-premises signs aimed at drivers on I-196, I-96, and US-131…

City Code § 50-9.5 allows only one freeway sign per lot within 200 feet of a highway right-of-way, and only in…

Novi allows freeway-facing billboard-style signs only inside a narrow highway sign zone along I-96. City Code Section…

Billboards in the City of Taylor, Michigan must sit on a lot adjacent to and facing the I-94 highway, and are only…

Wyoming, Michigan draws a hard line at freeway frontage: Sec. 90-709(1) confines off-premises billboards to parcels…