Sign Regulations in New York (2026)

In New York, affixing a political sign, poster, or notice to property you neither own nor have permission to use, a…

New York City makes it unlawful to paste, post, nail or otherwise affix any political sign, poster or sticker to city…

North Hempstead bans freestanding political signs in every zoning district and prohibits attaching any political sign…

Amherst lets a political sign go up without a building permit, but § 7-8-3B(7) of the Zoning Ordinance confines it to…

Political signs need a Town permit in Brookhaven, capped at 16 square feet on commercial or industrial land and 4…

Political signs in the Town of Clay may go up twice a year, staying in place up to 60 days before the election or event…

Colonie lets residents post political and lawn signs on private property without a permit, capped at 4.5 square feet…

Election-related signs in the Town of Greece may go up no earlier than six weeks before any primary, general or special…

In the Village of Hamburg, New York, temporary lawn signs, the kind the Code names for political campaigns, need no…

In the Town of Irondequoit, temporary political signs need no building permit but are limited to one nonilluminated…

Mount Vernon caps political and campaign signs at 16 square feet and four feet in height under City Code § 267-77G(9)…

New Rochelle exempts detached campaign signs from the permit that other temporary signs need, but still caps them at…

Political signs in unincorporated Ramapo require a Town Clerk notice, a sign permit fee and a security deposit before…

Political signs in Rochester may not exceed six square feet per side, and City Zoning Code § 120-177C(1) caps a…

Saratoga Springs treats campaign signs as exempt noncommercial speech: no permit, no quantity cap, and no election-day…

In the Town of Tonawanda, political lawn signs need no zoning permit if each stays under three feet tall and six square…

Utica regulates political and campaign signs as temporary signs. They may be posted up to six weeks before an event and…

Clarkstown lets residents post temporary political campaign signs without a sign permit, but § 243-6(O) requires them…

In the Village of Southampton, political signs can be displayed for no more than 70 days before an election and 10 days…

In the City of Troy, New York, election campaign signs need no work permit if each sign is no larger than 16 square…

In the Town of Union outside the Villages of Endicott and Johnson City, political and campaign signs need no permit and…

The City of Oneida, Madison County, New York, exempts political signs from the citywide sign permit requirement…

In the Town of Southampton outside the villages, a political sign is defined as any nonilluminated sign meant to…

The Town of Babylon requires a Town Clerk permit before any garage sale, and any sign advertising the sale must come…

Garage sale signage is limited to a maximum of six signs, each no larger than two square feet. Signs may go up no more…

In the Town of Clay, a garage sale or personal event sign counts as a 'community/personal event sign' under Town of…

Town of Colonie Code § 190-50G caps garage-sale signage at one on-site sign plus up to four off-premises signs, each no…

Glen Cove caps garage sale advertising at two signs per sale, each no larger than 24 by 12 inches, under City Code §…

A Town of Greece property may display only one garage sale sign, capped at six square feet, under the Table 1 schedule…

New Rochelle issues one 14.5-by-23-inch official yard sign per garage sale permit plus up to 10 smaller 12-square-inch…

North Hempstead gives garage sales no special sign allowance. Town Code § 70-100.3A(3) requires any garage sale signage…

Utica treats garage-sale signs as temporary signs. They may go up no more than six weeks before the sale and must come…

Schenectady garage sales must run between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., and no sign advertising one may be attached, painted or…

The Town of Southampton exempts a homeowner's temporary garage sale, open house or yard sale sign from sign permits and…

In the Village of Southampton, a residence can put up one garage sale sign, no larger than four square feet and not…

In the City of Troy, New York, garage sale signs need no work permit and can be displayed in any zone on the property…

In the Town of Union outside the Villages of Endicott and Johnson City, a sign for an open house, garage sale or…

Albany exempts temporary holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting standards, but the display must come down within…

New York City's Fire Code caps temporary wiring for outdoor holiday lighting and other seasonal displays at 90 calendar…

In the Town of Southampton outside the villages, outlining a building's roof, gable, window or wall with lighting is…

Brookhaven exempts holiday lighting from its exterior lighting standards, but only between October 15 and January 15…

Huntington's outdoor lighting law lets homeowners and businesses put up holiday lighting only within a set window…

The Town of Islip's exterior lighting ordinance exempts holiday lighting from its glare, shielding and cutoff…

In the Village of Southampton, holiday lighting, defined as temporary strings of small individual lamps, is exempt from…

In the City of Troy, New York, holiday decorations are exempt from the sign work permit if they go up no more than 60…

Town of Babylon's exterior lighting law names holiday lighting as its own defined category, string lights, menorahs…

The Town of Clay's outdoor lighting chapter exempts temporary holiday lighting from its shielding, glare, and…

Colonie's sign law exempts holiday decorations from permit requirements entirely, but only while the holiday they mark…

In the Town of Union, NY, noncommercial holiday decorations need no sign permit under § 300-52.3(F), and holiday…

Town of Babylon Code bans off-premises advertising signs outright and requires all signs to hold light stationary in…

Brookhaven bans new billboards outright under § 57A-22 and required every existing billboard dismantled by December 31…

Clarkstown's sign law flatly prohibits billboards, digital and electronic reader-board signs anywhere in town. Section…

The Town of Clay bans billboards and 'electronic message board signs' outright under Town of Clay Code § 230-22E(2)(j)…

The Village of Hamburg, New York, prohibits any sign that is internally illuminated or that uses digital or LED screen…

Huntington's sign code outlaws billboards outright in every district, along with off-premises advertising…

Islip's sign ordinance bans commercial billboards outright, any sign rented to advertise a product or business other…

Mount Vernon prohibits the construction of any new billboard under City Code § 267-76J, a flat ban that draws no…

New Rochelle bans new billboards outright under Chapter 270, and Section 270-16 blocks existing ones from ever…

Ramapo Code § 376-82 prohibits exterior advertising signs and billboards outright, along with flashing signs whose…

Troy City Code § 285-109(E)(8) bars any new advertising sign, off-premises sign or billboard in the City of Troy, New…

Albany caps electronically changeable copy on detached signs at 30% to 70% of the permitted sign area by zoning…

Greece bars electronic message centers from every residential district, requires 10mm minimum resolution with automatic…

New York City's Zoning Resolution has no separate category for digital billboards; any sign with changing light, color…

Oyster Bay's zoning code draws a hard line at eight message changes a day: a changeable-copy electronic sign that flips…

Digital signs in the Town of Tonawanda must show static messages only, with no animation, scrolling, or video, and may…

In the Town of Union outside the Villages of Endicott and Johnson City, an off-premises digital sign is capped at 450…

Digital billboards are barred everywhere else in Yonkers because § 43-33K(1) treats billboards as legally nonconforming…

Colonie allows digital billboards under its billboard illumination rule, but caps how fast the message can change: no…

The City of Oneida, Madison County, New York, requires the Building Inspector/Code Enforcement Officer to review and…

Albany caps window signs at 15% of any single window and 10% of a building's total window area per story, exempting…

A shop window in the Town of Amherst can't be more than 20 percent covered by signs or posters. Amherst Code §…

In Town of Babylon business and industrial districts, a window sign is capped at 25 feet long by six feet tall and…

Brookhaven caps window signage under § 57A-3I to one sign for every 12 linear feet of window frontage, and no sign or…

Town Code § 260-50G(1) caps lettered or neon window signs at 50% of the total glass area and requires them to be…

In Clarkstown's Hamlet Center Districts, a business may display a window sign behind the ground-floor storefront glass…

Greenburgh limits any sign attached to or placed within two feet of a window to covering no more than 25% of that…

In the Village of Hamburg, New York, window signs are limited to 25% of window area in the LCR, VCC, NCC, GC, MU-R, and…

In Huntington's commercial districts, a window sign displayed on the inside of a storefront can't cover more than…

Within the Bayport Overlay District along Montauk Highway, Code of the Town of Islip § 68-759C caps window signs at no…

Mount Vernon caps interior window signage at 20 percent of a storefront's aggregate window area, or 10 square feet if…

New Rochelle caps window and door signage at 15% of the total glass area under Section 270-9(C), with lettering no…

The City of Oneida, Madison County, New York, limits window signs by percentage of glass covered: permanent window…

A window sign in Oyster Bay is only exempt from the town's sign permit rules if it sits more than four feet from the…

Rochester's Zoning Code design standards cap window signage at 25% of a window's total area under § 120-177F(11), a…

In the Town of Southampton outside the villages, a window sign cannot cover more than 25% of a window's area or 10% of…

In the Village of Southampton, window signs are allowed only in nonresidential districts. Under § 116-13E, window signs…

In the City of Troy, New York, Troy City Code § 285-97(Q) lets a window sign cover no more than 20% of the window area…

New nonresidential and mixed-use buildings in Yonkers' downtown districts must keep ground-floor glass at least 50%…

Greece defines a window sign as one placed on or viewed through a window facing out from a building, and exempts window…

North Hempstead caps window signs in business and industrial districts at one-third of a window's total glass area…

In the Town of Tonawanda, window signs are capped at 20% of the window's area under the Town Board's zoning sign…

New York City bars new billboards within 200 feet of a City-designated arterial highway if visible from it, and…

Billboards in the Town of Tonawanda are confined to parcels adjoining the Elmer G.H. Youngmann Expressway or the…

In the Town of Union outside the Villages of Endicott and Johnson City, off-premises signs are allowed only in the…

Colonie won't let a billboard be built, erected, or altered within 660 feet of the right-of-way edge of any primary…