Sign Regulations in Minnesota (2026)

Minnesota Statute 211B.045 preempts municipal regulation of noncommercial signs during a defined election window. From…

Under Minn. Stat. 211B.045, noncommercial signs of any size may be posted in any number from 46 days before the state…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, § 154.03(J) lets temporary political signs go up no earlier than 100 days…

Blaine City Code § 26-3 confines political campaign signs to private property with the owner's permission, bans them…

Campaign signs in the City of Brooklyn Park may go up 46 days before a state primary and must come down ten days after…

Carver County lets residents post noncommercial and political signs of any size, overriding the county's usual permit…

Minnesota law bars cities from restricting the size or number of noncommercial signs, including political signs, from…

Ramsey County sets no sign rule, but Minnesota law overrides city limits during elections: Minn. Stat. 211B.045 lets…

Campaign signs for candidates seeking public political office in unincorporated Blue Earth County need no sign permit…

Coon Rapids treats yard signs supporting candidates or ballot measures as noncommercial speech signs under its…

In the City of Duluth, political signs are treated as noncommercial message signs under the Unified Development…

Eden Prairie lets residents post political signs of any size without a permit during a defined election window. City…

In the City of Minnetonka, Hennepin County, Minnesota, political signs fall under temporary non-commercial signs. Table…

Plymouth lets residents post temporary non-commercial and political signs of any size and number without a sign permit…

MN Stat 211B.045 preempts local regulation of noncommercial political signs on private property from 46 days before the…

Saint Paul allows political signs on private property subject to First Amendment protections. Minnesota law (MN…

Minnesota law strongly protects political signs. Under MN Stat. §211B.045, noncommercial signs of any size may be…

Minnesota law strongly protects political signs. Under MN Stat. §211B.045, noncommercial signs of any size may be…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, § 154.03(M) limits garage sale signs to a maximum of three days for each sale…

In the City of Blaine, garage sale and household-item sale signs must be freestanding, placed only on private property…

Brooklyn Park caps garage and rummage sale signs at four square feet, limits display to four days, and requires the…

Coon Rapids has no separate garage-sale-sign ordinance; a yard sale sign is a temporary sign under Section 11-1203.6(2)…

In the City of Eagan, City Code Sec. 11.70, Subd. 24.C and D require garage sale signs to comply with the city's sign…

A garage sale sign in the City of Eden Prairie counts as a yard sign under City Code Section 11.70, Subdivision…

Maple Grove, Minnesota lets residents post rummage sale signs without a permit, but only with the property owner's…

Washington County treats a garage-sale sign as a 'yard sign' under Development Code Section 1.10(4)(C): it may go up on…

Woodbury lets garage and yard sale hosts skip a sign permit but caps them at four signs total: three off-site and one…

Blaine lets residents and businesses put up holiday displays without a sign permit, but City Code Sec. 133-6(9)…

Washington County's outdoor lighting standards do not apply to temporary lighting used during customary holiday…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, § 154.05 prohibits advertising or billboard signs on any property other than…

Unincorporated Blue Earth County prohibits any sign with a rotating beam or flashing illumination, and separately bans…

Carver County outlaws digital and electronic changeable-copy signs outright. Section 154.23(D) lists 'changeable copy…

In unincorporated St. Louis County, a billboard is any freestanding outdoor sign over 128 square feet, and Zoning…

Washington County's Development Code flatly bans flashing signs, including any sign containing an electric reading…

Blaine confines billboards, including digital ones, to Light Industrial, Heavy Industrial, PBD, B-2 and B-3 zoned land…

Digital billboards fall under Coon Rapids' off-premises sign rules as 'dynamic display' signs, and the City has barred…

Electronic billboards are allowed only in Duluth's MU-C, MU-B and I-G zoning districts, and only if the owner offsets…

Maple Grove bans off-site advertising billboards and dynamic-display signs outright, allowing electronic message…

Minneapolis bars new digital or electronic elements on off-premises billboards citywide, with one narrow exception…

In the City of Minnetonka, Hennepin County, Minnesota, outdoor advertising signs are no longer allowed, and those…

Plymouth allows new dynamic display billboards only along Interstate 494 or State Highway 169, capped at 14 feet high…

Digital and dynamic-display signs in Saint Paul must sit at least 75 feet from a residential district along the road…

Woodbury permits electronic display and reader board signs only within the sign area already allowed for freestanding…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, City Code § 150.05(A) bans motion signs citywide but exempts permanent electronic message…

In the City of Eagan, digital and dynamic display signs are allowed only on monument and pylon signs under City Code §…

Digital and electronic message signs in Eden Prairie are called 'dynamic displays' under City Code Section 11.70…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, electronic changeable copy or graphic display signs are allowed only in the C-2…

In the City of Apple Valley, Minnesota, § 154.03(H) keeps inside window signs out of the 20% wall coverage computation…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, a window sign cannot cover more than 25% of the total window area on the wall face where…

Coon Rapids limits temporary window signage to commercial districts and caps it at 40 percent of the window area on any…

In the City of Duluth, no exterior sign may cover a window or door, and a window sign printed on transparent film is…

In the City of Eagan, a window or door sign cannot cover more than 60 percent of the windows and doors on the building…

Permanent window signs in Maple Grove may cover no more than 25 percent of a window's total area, and temporary…

Minneapolis window signs can cover up to 30 percent of the window area, but can't obstruct the view into or out of the…

Plymouth does not give window signs a separate allowance. Under City Code Section 21155.06, window signage (including…

Temporary window signs in most Saint Paul business districts cannot cover more than 30 percent of the store window…

Woodbury caps window signs at 30 percent of a building's total window area, with a hard ceiling of 80 square feet per…

Blaine businesses can post signs or posters inside a window without a sign permit, but City Code Sec. 133-6(7) caps…

In the City of Eden Prairie, a window sign placed inside a building and not exceeding ten percent of the window area…

Lakeville caps window signs at twenty five percent of a window's total area under City Code section 11-23-7.H. Because…

Signs or posters attached to or painted on the inside of a display window need no sign permit anywhere in…

Washington County's sign rules do not reach signs painted, glued or otherwise attached directly to or visible through a…

In the City of Brooklyn Park, City Code § 150.05(I) flatly bans billboards within the T.H. 610 Corridor as delineated…

A business directly adjacent to a freeway in the City of Eagan can seek a conditional use permit for an on-premises…

Minneapolis limits off-premises billboards near freeways to designated Billboard Districts along limited-access…

In the City of Plymouth, a new electronic dynamic-display billboard can go up only on a parcel with frontage on…

A nonconforming billboard within 330 feet of I-94 or I-35E north of I-94 that is designed to be read from the freeway…

Commercial and industrial signs meant to be seen from an elevated four-lane highway in unincorporated Blue Earth County…

Any sign proposed along a state trunk highway or interstate in unincorporated Carver County needs more than the…

Billboards along Interstate 35 and Interstate 535 in Duluth must be spaced at least 800 feet apart, tighter than the…

In the City of Lakeville, Minnesota, freestanding signs within the Freeway Corridor District along I-35 get larger and…

Washington County prohibits nearly all signs, other than public utility warning signs, on county property or within a…