Sign Regulations in Oklahoma (2026)

Oklahoma law makes it unlawful to place any sign, including a campaign sign, on or overhanging a state or federal…

Lawton allows political signs in every zoning district without a permit, but caps them at 32 square feet and six feet…

Midwest City limits political signs to one per frontage per candidate or issue, requires removal within three days…

Moore's traffic code bars placing any sign, including a political sign, on or in view of a highway if it imitates an…

Norman lets political signs sit in the right-of-way strip between the property line and the curb in front of or beside…

Campaign signs in Tulsa must come down within seven days of the election, need the property owner's consent on private…

Broken Arrow allows temporary election signs but confines them to private property, banning placement in any public…

Lawton restricts yard-sale advertising to one sign per residential-sale permit. The sign must stand on the sale…

Midwest City requires garage-sale signs to come down within 24 hours after the sale ends and to stay at least 12 feet…

A licensed residential sale in the City of Moore may use no more than five signs, only signs supplied by the city with…

Oklahoma City caps garage and yard sale signs at one 12-square-foot sign on the sale property plus two more…

Norman allows only one temporary sign to advertise a garage sale, and NCC section 20-1103 requires it to be placed in…

Lawton bans continuous strings of light bulbs outlining a building, property line, or sales area when they are meant to…

Midwest City's zoning code bans bare light bulbs over 15 watts and unshielded light strings citywide, but exempts…

Edmond exempts temporary holiday decorations and lighting displays from sign permitting entirely, so long as they're…

Tulsa's zoning code exempts temporary holiday light displays from the outdoor lighting chapter's shielding, glare, and…

Edmond prohibits electronic message signs outright, including digital billboards, with no variance allowed, carving out…

Oklahoma City bans off-premise billboards and Electronic Message Display (EMD) signs in a defined downtown zone around…

Broken Arrow caps digital and LED sign brightness at 300 NITs at night and 5,000 NITs by day, bans flashing or moving…

Digital billboards in Lawton must hold each static image for at least eight seconds and fade between images over one…

Norman allows one electronic digital sign per business, but only in areas zoned commercial or industrial, under NCC…

Tulsa allows digital billboards only as dynamic displays on off-premise outdoor advertising signs in commercial and…

Midwest City lets an existing billboard add a digital sign component without a new structural permit, so long as the…

Broken Arrow exempts painted or posted window signs from permitting only while they cover no more than 25 percent of…

Edmond caps permanent window signs at 35% of street-level window area and temporary window signs at 50%, with temporary…

Norman caps window signs in commercial zones at 35 percent of total window area at street level, not to exceed 25…

Oklahoma City caps window signs at 10% of ground-floor glazing in residential districts and 25% in commercial…

Tulsa caps window signs at 25% of the glass they're mounted on for nonresidential businesses; exceeding that share…

Temporary window signs in Lawton can cover no more than 25 percent of a storefront's window area, counting any…

Broken Arrow limits billboards near freeways to one per property with a 1,500-foot separation between billboards on the…

Freestanding signs in Midwest City are normally capped at 20 feet, but signs within 100 feet of the Interstate 40…

Industrial and Commercial lots within 1,320 feet of the I-35 right-of-way get one extra ground sign under NCC 28-504…

Every sign near a Tulsa freeway, wall, freestanding, projecting or billboard, must sit back at least 10 feet from the…