Sign Regulations in Ohio (2026)

Ohio Revised Code Section 3517.20 universally requires identification disclaimers on political campaign signs, while…

Akron lets residents put up temporary political signs without a permit, but only within a set window. City Code §…

Cleveland caps political signs at 8 square feet in Residential Districts and 64 square feet in non-residential…

Hamilton County has no countywide political-sign ordinance. Time, size, and placement limits for yard signs come from…

Sign rules are set by your city, not the county. In Elyria's residential districts, non-commercial signs (including…

Canton regulates political signs content-neutrally as temporary signs. Under Codified Ordinance 1187.11, temporary…

Cincinnati treats political signs as noncommercial signs under Zoning Code § 1427-15, letting them appear anywhere in…

Medina's zoning code has no separate category for political or campaign signs; a yard sign supporting a candidate or…

Toledo treats political signs as yard signs under its content-neutral Chapter 1113 sign code. They're permitted…

Akron caps garage and yard sale signs at four square feet under City Code § 153.365(A)(11). The sign can go up no more…

Cleveland lets one- and two-family homes and townhouses post a single garage sale or open house sign per lot under…

Columbus lets residents post an on-premise garage or yard sale sign up to four square feet without a zoning permit, but…

Unincorporated Franklin County allows hand-tacked garage sale signs on private residential property up to four times a…

Hamilton County has no countywide garage-sale-sign ordinance. Temporary-sign size, duration, and placement (including a…

Lima's zoning code has no separate garage-sale-sign section. In residential districts, temporary signs such as 'For…

Garage-sale sign rules are set by your city. In Elyria, temporary non-commercial signs in residential districts need no…

Lucas County sets no garage-sale-sign rule. Your city or township regulates temporary signs, and placement in the…

Canton treats garage sale signs as temporary signs under Codified Ordinance 1187.11: permit-exempt, capped at 6 square…

Toledo lets residents post garage sale, yard sale and open-house signs in the public right-of-way without violating the…

Dayton's sign code bans inflatable signs citywide, but exempts religious and secular holiday decorations displayed…

Akron treats holiday decorations as a permitted sign category with no separate permit and no stated time limit: Section…

Cleveland's sign code doesn't reach holiday decorations at all: Codified Ordinances § 350.21(g) exempts 'holiday…

Cleveland's Zoning Code flatly bars billboards from carrying digital or electronic content. Codified Ordinances §…

Akron only allows digital billboard technology as part of an outdoor advertising display approved as a conditional use…

Franklin County zoning bars flashing or bare-bulb billboard lighting, limits message-center copy changes to…

Medina allows electronic message center signs only as ground signs, only with a conditional zoning certificate, and…

Parma allows digital billboards as free-standing or wall signs with automatic changeable copy, but only behind building…

Toledo's sign code has no permit category for freestanding off-premise digital billboards. Electronic Message Centers…

Cincinnati taxes outdoor advertising signs under an annual minimum tax that treats electronic billboards far more…

Columbus limits automatic changeable copy billboards to C-3, C-4, C-5 and M districts, caps brightness at 0.3…

Dayton's zoning code allows electronic off-premise signs (digital billboards) but caps them at one per direction per…

Akron limits on-premises window signs to whichever is larger: seventy-five percent of the window's surface or fifteen…

Cincinnati caps window signs at 20 percent of the glass area of the window they're attached to, and confines them to…

Cleveland caps window signage at 25% of window area in every zoning district except Residential and Residence-Office…

Columbus caps window signage at 25% of the window's area per City Code § 3377.23, with permanent signs over 10 square…

Dayton caps window signs on single-family and manufactured homes at 20% of the window's glass area, up to three square…

Medina's Sign Code defines a window sign as anything posted or visible through a window or door from outside. For…

Parma caps temporary window signs at 25% of the total window area of the facade on which they are displayed. The limit…

Toledo caps window signage at 25% of a building façade's total window area and confines it to the ground floor. Window…

Medina's zoning code bans billboard signs and virtually all other off-premises advertising signs citywide. Section…

Akron bans highway advertising devices within 660 feet of the right-of-way of any expressway, controlled-access…

On Cincinnati's interstate and primary highway systems, outdoor advertising sign spacing follows the state-federal…

Retail businesses near a Cleveland freeway interchange may add one extra free-standing identification sign under…

Columbus bars signs in or overhanging Interstate System right-of-way and sets a 660-foot line for both on-premises and…

Dayton bars new advertising devices within 660 feet of interstate and primary highway rights-of-way, with narrow…