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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

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

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