Sign Regulations in Ohio (2026)

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

In the City of Marion, Ohio, political signs are classed as temporary nonaccessory signs under § 1161.03. They are…

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…

In the City of Oregon, Ohio, political signs supporting a candidate or ballot issue cannot exceed fifteen square feet…

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

In the City of Youngstown, Ohio, political yard signs on residential property cannot exceed two feet by three feet and…

The City of Canton, Ohio exempts political signs from zoning permits under Codified Ordinances Section 1187.17…

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…

In the City of Middletown, Ohio, the sign code has no separate category for campaign or political signs; they fall…

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…

In the City of Canton, Ohio, Zoning Code Section 1142.01(c) bars garage sale signs from telephone poles, trees or…

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…

The City of Elyria, Ohio has no sign rule written for garage sales by name, but a temporary sign cannot be illuminated…

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…

In the City of Middletown, Ohio, only two garage sale signs are allowed, each no larger than four square feet: one on…

In the City of Newark, Ohio, a sign advertising or giving directions to a home sale or street sale must stay on the…

In the City of Oregon, Ohio, garage, estate and yard sale signs are capped at four square feet and can go up for no…

Springfield allows no more than two garage-sale signs, each no larger than four square feet, and they may only stand on…

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…

Youngstown caps home, garage, yard and porch sales at three temporary signs total under Chapter 748: one on the sale…

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

In the City of Newark, Ohio, inflatable holiday decorations are permitted in OBCI and R-Districts without a permit, and…

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

Canton exempts temporary residential holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting rules, but only while it is illuminated…

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

In the City of Middletown, Ohio, Chapter 1220's sign rules do not touch holiday displays at all. Section 1220.02(d)(4)…

In the City of Springfield, Ohio, seasonal lights and decorations customarily displayed during federally, state, or…

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

Oregon, Ohio bans billboards outright under its sign code. Where an electronic message center is otherwise allowed on a…

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…

Digital or electronic advertising signs in the City of Marion, Ohio must be erected at least 20 feet above grade and no…

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

In the City of Newark, Ohio, a variable message electronic sign cannot show animated or moving video, and one within…

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

In the City of Springfield, Ohio, a digital or electronic billboard is allowed only in the C-LC/C-HC and I-LI/I-HI…

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

In the City of Youngstown, Ohio, electronic message center billboards must hold each message for at least ten seconds…

In the City of Canton, Ohio, Codified Ordinances Section 1187.13 limits electronic message unit (EMU) signs to 5,000…

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…

The City of Elyria, Ohio permits electronic variable message signs as off-premises signs under § 1173.10(B): public…

In the City of Middletown, Ohio, digital and electronic billboards are regulated as electronic message centers under §…

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

In Business and Industrial Districts, Canton, Ohio's Codified Ordinances Section 1187.20(i) cap permanent window…

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…

In the City of Middletown, Ohio, window signs are exempt from the certificate-of-zoning-compliance process but still…

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

In the City of Springfield, Ohio, a window sign cannot cover more than 25 percent of the window it's mounted in, and…

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

In the City of Youngstown, Ohio, Design Review Committee sign standards for the Central Area recommend that painted…

Window signs in the City of Elyria, Ohio are permitted only in a building where a commercial or industrial use is…

In the City of Newark, Ohio, a window sign is a sign of no more than sixteen square feet affixed to the interior…

In the City of Oregon, Ohio, window signs may be displayed only on the inside of a window under Codified Ordinances…

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…

Marion's rule for signs along its US 23 corridor is § 1161.042(F). Digital or electronic advertising signs are not…

Canton, Ohio's Codified Ordinances Section 1187.23 lets a retail business within 660 feet of a freeway interchange add…

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…

The City of Elyria, Ohio runs a Highway Overlay District two hundred feet on each side of I-90 and of SR 57 between the…