Sign Regulations in New Jersey (2026)

Burlington County bans posting any signs or notices, including political signs, anywhere in the County Parks System…

Newark bans political campaign signs on streets, sidewalks, curbs, utility poles and any public property outright. On…

Clifton bans political signs on any public street, sidewalk, park or other public facility, and bars placing them on…

Edison Township exempts temporary political preference or event signs from zoning permits, but caps them at 32 square…

Freehold Township lets political signs go up without a permit, but requires the property owner's permission, removal…

Political and election signs are exempt from Hackensack's sign permit but capped at 12 square feet, must sit entirely…

Hamilton caps political signs at 32 square feet and limits their display window to the 60 days before an election, with…

Irvington allows one nonilluminated political-preference, election, or event sign per lot without a sign permit, capped…

Jersey City exempts political signs from its general sign standards but caps their display window: they may go up no…

Lakewood Township exempts political signs from its sign permit process, but caps them at 32 square feet, bars them from…

Long Branch caps political signs at one per candidate or issue per property, bans them on public property and utility…

Passaic caps yard political signs at eight square feet and building signs the same size (with one exception for a…

Paterson caps yard political signs at 8 square feet and requires a 10-foot setback from the sidewalk, with a…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-122H(6) allows temporary, nonilluminated political signs in every zone but requires…

Political signs in Toms River Township may go up 30 days before an election and must come down within seven days after…

Trenton bars campaign and special-event material from every public place or facility, from utility poles to public…

Mercer County bars placing advertising signs, including garage-sale signs, along any county road or right-of-way…

Brick Township requires garage, yard, and flea market sale signs to come down within three days after the sale ends…

Burlington County does not regulate garage-sale signs on streets or private lots; that is municipal. On county park…

Clifton lets garage sale permit holders post signs only if they follow the City's Sign Ordinance, Chapter 461, Article…

Edison Township exempts on-premises garage sale signs from zoning permits, but caps them at 2 square feet, requires the…

Elizabeth allows garage-sale signs only on the day of the sale during permitted hours, on the premises covered by the…

Galloway's § 233-10 sign rules cover temporary signs such as garage-sale and yard-sale signs. Temporary signs must be…

Garage, rummage and yard sale signs in Hackensack are capped at six square feet and five feet tall, whether posted on…

Jersey City bans posting garage-sale signs on public property and utility poles without Traffic Engineer authorization…

Lakewood Township allows a temporary garage or yard sale sign without a permit, but caps it at four square feet, only…

Linden restricts a licensed garage sale to a single sign, no larger than four square feet, posted on the residential…

Newark garage sale signs cannot exceed two feet by two feet, may only go up two days before the sale, must come down…

A Passaic garage-sale license does not allow signs in the street, sidewalk or other public right-of-way, § 234-6.D…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 163-6 allows no more than two garage-sale signs per property, each capped at four square…

Trenton allows a temporary garage or yard sale sign only for a seller who holds a valid City sale permit. The sign can…

Garage sale signs in Irvington may go only on the seller's own premises, capped at two feet by two feet. Section 478-28…

Ridgewood confines privately funded holiday displays on Village property to one spot at Van Neste Square, caps them at…

Edison Township's sign code classifies all banners and inflatables, including holiday displays, as temporary signs…

Brick Township permits temporary holiday displays in every zoning district under § 245-314.C(1)(d), with no size or…

Newark exempts seasonal holiday lights and decorations from its sign permit and design rules, but only if they carry no…

Jersey City exempts holiday lights and decorations from its sign code entirely, so long as they carry no commercial…

Paterson doesn't require a sign permit for holiday lights and decorations, as long as they carry no commercial message…

Toms River Township exempts outdoor holiday decorations from sign permits and area limits entirely, so long as the…

Trenton exempts temporary holiday and seasonal lighting displays from its exterior lighting standards entirely. Under…

Bergenfield prohibits billboards outright in every zone, along with roof signs, portable A-frame signs, inflatable…

Brick Township prohibits construction or relocation of any new billboard, digital or static, anywhere in the township…

Edison Township bars off-premise billboards from carrying electronic, digital, or automatically changing images…

Freehold Township bans electronic changeable-message boards outright except for gas station price signs and multiplex…

Hackensack's zoning code bans billboards outright and separately prohibits electronic message centers, changeable-copy…

Irvington's zoning code bars any outdoor display structure or billboard outright, and separately bans flashing signs…

Mercer County prohibits placing advertising signs and structures, including digital billboards, along any county road…

Newark bans digital billboards outright. Even where a billboard is otherwise allowed as a conditional use, § 41:6-2-11…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-122B(1)(a) bans billboards outright everywhere in the Village except at a railroad…

Trenton's Zoning Code blocks digital billboards outright: electronic message signs are barred from operating as…

Digital billboards, called Electronic Message Center outdoor advertising signs, are allowed only along designated…

Lakewood Township caps digital billboards at five townwide, requires a public-bid permit process with a $200…

Off-premises digital billboards in Toms River Township must meet New Jersey's multiple-message sign standard, N.J.A.C…

Woodbridge Township's property maintenance code bans any window sign, permanent or temporary, that covers more than 10%…

In Bergenfield's business and industrial zones, a painted window sign plus any temporary window signage together cannot…

Brick Township exempts temporary window-mounted signs from permitting, but caps coverage at 50% of the window's area…

Edison Township caps temporary window signs in commercial windows at 25% of the window's area and requires them to come…

Elizabeth commercial display windows may carry the store's name, description or logo inscribed on the glass, but that…

In Hackensack's Business and Manufacturing districts, window signage content is limited to specific categories…

Irvington caps temporary window advertising at 33 1/3% of any single window or display area and forces removal of paper…

Jersey City caps temporary signs and paper advertising on any single window or window-display area at 50% of its square…

Lakewood Township caps interior window signage at 25% of the window it's displayed on, with a temporary bump to 50%…

In Linden, a temporary sign posted inside a storefront window is exempt from the City's sign-permit requirement as long…

Newark caps how much of a storefront's glass can carry signage: mixed-use buildings are held to 10% of glazed area per…

Passaic storefronts can't cover more than 33⅓% of any single window or window-display area with temporary signs or…

Village of Ridgewood Code § 190-122E(2)(d) caps nonilluminated interior window signs at 20% of the glass area or 50…

Within the Downtown Toms River Business Improvement District, window lettering and logos applied directly to glass…

Trenton limits window signs on nonresidential buildings to no more than 30% of each window's surface area, whether the…

Interior window signs in Hamilton need no construction permit, but they cannot cover more than 30% of the total window…

Long Branch exempts temporary window signs from its sign permit rules, but only if they stay under 25% of the window…

Paterson prohibits signs in every district that obstruct views of natural geographic features, particularly views seen…

City Code Schedule III, Item O, referenced by Section 17.36.070, permits billboards in any district only within 300…

Hamilton confines freeway-facing outdoor advertising signs to ten named zones bordering I-195 and I-295, capping height…

Linden allows billboards only as freestanding, principal-use signs in its L-I, L-1A and H-I industrial zones, the…

A Trenton billboard larger than 300 square feet must sit in an I-L or I-G industrial district and be oriented to show…

Freehold Township lets a temporary real estate sign grow past its normal 50 or 100 square foot cap when the property…