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…

Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania, lets political signs go up no sooner than 45 days before an election and requires…

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 §…

In the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a political sign is limited to 10 square feet, cannot go up earlier than 60…

In Haverford Township, temporary signs advertising political parties or candidates for election are exempt from sign…

In Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, opinion and election campaign signs are exempt from zoning…

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…

In Bristol Township, signs advertising garage or yard sales must meet Article XXIX of the zoning chapter. In the R-1…

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…

A garage-sale sign in Lower Merion Township's public right-of-way qualifies as a "temporary sign" under § 133-2.1 and…

In Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, the code has no separate garage sale sign section, so a Yard Sale…

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…

In the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a garage or yard sale sign needs no zoning permit but is capped at two signs…

In Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, garage, yard and auction sale signs can go up not more than 10…

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…

Bensalem Township allows festoon holiday lighting only during national and religious holidays. Section 232-715(d)(3)…

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

In the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the zoning code's ban on flashing, blinking, twinkling, animated or moving…

Lower Merion Township exempts seasonal holiday lighting from its outdoor lighting article only when individual lamps…

Lower Paxton Township Code § 203-1011 lets Dauphin County, Pennsylvania residents and businesses display noncommercial…

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…

In the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, billboards are allowed only in the IND District, and § 7-325.14 prohibits…

In Haverford Township, off-site advertising signs, a term the Code defines to include a billboard, are permitted only…

Lower Merion Township allows off-premises signs only up to 675 square feet with a special exception, and Table 9.2.J of…

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

Bensalem Township allows digital billboards only where they replace an existing off-premises sign within 100 feet of…

In Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania, an electronic message board sign is allowed only in the HC-1 District. It must sit…

Bristol Township's zoning chapter has no separate digital billboard section, but it prohibits animated signs and treats…

Lower Paxton Township Code § 203-1008 confines billboards in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania to the CG, LI and GI…

In Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, an Electronic Message Center inside a Billboard or High-Rise Sign…

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…

Bensalem Township treats window signs as wall signage. Section 232-714(b)(2)d.2 caps wall, awning, and window signs on…

Bristol Borough, Pennsylvania, limits temporary on-premises window signs to 15 days and to a total of 75% of the window…

In Bristol Township, window signs cannot cover more than 25% of the total window area in the CN, P-O and MS Districts…

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

In Haverford Township, window signs cannot exceed 15% of the glass area of the window in which they are placed, unless…

Lower Merion caps window signage at 10% of the available window space under Table 9.2.I of the Zoning Code, and window…

In Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, window signs that can be legibly read from adjacent property or…

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…

In Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, a Window Sign needs no Sign Permit in any district as long as the…

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

Bensalem Township allows off-premises billboards only within 100 feet of the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276) or I-95…

In Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, the code's only interstate-specific sign rule is § 145-89B for…

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

In Bristol Township, freestanding signs along Interstate 95 and the PA Turnpike get a special 25-foot height limit in…

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