Sign Regulations in Pennsylvania (2026)

Placing a political sign, banner, or any advertising matter within the legal limits of a Pennsylvania state highway is…

Candidates who post campaign signs on public property in Allegheny County must remove them within 10 days after the…

Political signs affixed to a utility pole or streetlight standard in Allentown may go up no earlier than 45 days before…

Berks County publishes a compiled guide to its townships' and boroughs' campaign-sign rules. Countywide, signs may not…

Delaware County has no sign ordinance for private property. Political-sign rules (size, number, how long before and…

Erie bans posting any political campaign sign on public property outright, and on private property limits posting to no…

On private property, political-sign rules are set by your municipality's zoning ordinance, not Lancaster County. In…

Montgomery County has no sign ordinance. Political yard signs are regulated by your borough or township, but under the…

Penn Hills lets campaign signs go up no more than 30 days before an election and requires removal within 12 days after…

Pittsburgh's zoning code lets temporary political campaign signs go up under Chapter 919, capped at 12 or 32 square…

Reading allows political campaign signs up to 32 square feet without a permit, but they must come down within two weeks…

Scranton limits political signs to five per lot, 20 square feet per side on smaller residential lots and 40 square feet…

Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, exempts temporary political signs from a zoning permit under Code §…

Philadelphia's Zoning Code has no separate political-sign category: a campaign sign counts as a temporary sign, exempt…

Pottstown's Zoning Code exempts political signs from the sign permit process entirely under Section 706. That exemption…

Upper Darby treats political, educational, charitable, civic and religious campaign signs as exempt from the township's…

Yard or garage sale signs in Allentown may be affixed to a utility pole or streetlight standard no more than three days…

Bethlehem allows only two on-site yard-sale signs of up to four square feet each, plus two smaller off-site directional…

Delaware County does not regulate yard-sale signs on private property. Temporary garage-sale signs are governed by your…

Lancaster County sets no garage-sale-sign rule for private property: your city/borough/township sign ordinance governs…

Monroe County townships treat garage-sale signs as temporary signs: small, up briefly, down after the sale. Signs stuck…

Montgomery County has no sign ordinance. Temporary garage-sale signs are regulated by your borough or township: typical…

Pottstown exempts yard sale signs from the zoning sign permit under Section 706, but Section 500 bans residential yard…

Reading allows yard and garage sale signs on utility poles only three days before the sale, requires the address and…

Upper Darby exempts yard sale and garage sale signs from the township's sign permit requirement, but caps them at two…

Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, exempts temporary yard or garage sale signs from a zoning permit under…

Allentown's zoning performance standards ban flashing, flickering, or strobe lighting on any sign or light source…

Pittsburgh's zoning code lets homeowners put up inflatable Santas, snowmen and other holiday decorations in any zoning…

Reading requires a written City Arborist permit before hanging lights or any other seasonal or holiday display on a…

Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, allows holiday decorations to go up six weeks before a holiday and…

Philadelphia's zoning outdoor lighting standards don't apply to seasonal displays used fewer than 60 days a year, so…

Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, bars any sign that flashes, moves, oscillates or rotates in every…

Digital billboards in Allentown are legal only as conversions of existing off-premise outdoor advertising signs, and…

Electronic advertising signs need a Zoning Board Special Exception, are confined to AS-O Subdistrict A, and face strict…

Pottstown limits every property to one electronic sign, bans video, animation and scrolling text, caps brightness at…

Reading limits how fast electronic message signs can change (once every six to ten seconds), bans scrolling text on…

Upper Darby confines billboards to the C-2 and C-4 Districts, caps them at 300 square feet, and requires 500 feet of…

Penn Hills allows LED billboards with electronically changing messages, but only in I-1 and I-2 Industrial Districts…

Philadelphia limits digital billboard brightness, bans motion, and keeps new digital signs 500 feet from residential…

Scranton's sign code allows an electrically changing message on any permitted sign, including an off-premises…

Citywide, Allentown allows non-illuminated and neon window signs in every zone without a permit, but § 660-97.J caps…

Franklin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, caps window signage at 15% of a building's total front glass area…

Window signs in Philadelphia can't cover more than 20% of a window or glass door's transparent area, per the zoning…

In Pittsburgh's East Carson Street Neighborhood Business Sign District, street-level shops get two window signs capped…

In Pottstown's Downtown, Downtown Gateway, Gateway East, Gateway West and Traditional Town Neighborhood districts…

Storefronts in Reading's commercial zoning districts, including the Commercial Neighborhood District, can cover only…

Scranton caps window signage as a share of the building face it's mounted on: 5% in Residential and Institutional…

Commercial window signs in Upper Darby count toward the building's overall attached-sign allowance and cannot cover…

Off-premise billboards facing Interstate 78 or U.S. Route 22 in Allentown get special treatment under § 660-104.A: a…

Outdoor advertising signs are barred within 660 feet of I-95 and I-76 ramps, with digital conversion allowed only in…

Advertising signs (billboards) facing Pittsburgh's restricted-access highways must sit at least 350 feet from the…