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…

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…

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 the City of Wyoming, Michigan are exempt from a sign permit under Zoning Ordinance Table 90-703, but…

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…

Garage-sale sign rules come from your city or township, not Kent County. In Kentwood, temporary signs of six square…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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)…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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%…

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 caps window signage in its nonresidential zoning districts (B-1, B-2, B-3, RO-1, I-1, I-2, I-3) at 15…

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…

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…

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