Sign Regulations in Tennessee (2026)

Tennessee cities cannot ban political signs on private residential property; content-neutral size, setback, and…

Hendersonville lets residents post election signs on private property without a permit, but caps them at 16 square…

Political candidate signs in unincorporated Knox County don't need a building permit, but Zoning Ordinance Sec…

The joint Memphis and Shelby County Unified Development Code lets any temporary sign carry a lawful noncommercial…

Murfreesboro treats campaign and other political signs as ordinary noncommercial temporary signs: capped at three per…

Metro Nashville bans posting political campaign signs on telephone and light poles across the general services…

Chattanooga exempts political yard signs from its temporary sign permit, but requires them removed within 15 days after…

Political preference signs are treated as temporary, non-commercial signs under Zoning Ordinance Section 18.08(B). A…

In unincorporated Rutherford County, temporary non-commercial signs, including political and campaign signs, may be…

In unincorporated Shelby County, the Unified Development Code sign chapter (UDC 4.9) allows any permitted sign to carry…

Clarksville requires yard sale holders to register with the building official and confines all advertising to temporary…

Chattanooga limits garage sale yard signs to 32 square feet, displayed no more than 15 days before and 30 days after…

Franklin has no sign type dedicated to garage sales: signage for a sale falls under the general temporary-sign rule…

A garage sale sign in unincorporated Knox County counts as a temporary sign under Zoning Ordinance Sec. 3.90.05, so it…

Knoxville allows two on-site garage sale signs up to 4 square feet and two directional signs up to 2 square feet…

The joint Memphis and Shelby County Unified Development Code treats a garage-sale sign as a temporary residential sign…

Garage-sale signs count as temporary signs in Sumner County. The zoning resolution lets you post them on any…

Garage sale signs count as temporary, non-commercial residential signs under Section 18.08(B) of the Zoning Ordinance…

A garage sale sign in Hendersonville falls under the Zoning Ordinance's residential-message sign category, and that…

Metro Nashville exempts yard-sale signs up to six square feet, one per lot, from sign permits -- but you must post them…

Garage and yard-sale signs are temporary signs under Section 1206 of the Rutherford County Zoning Ordinance. They must…

In unincorporated Shelby County, the Unified Development Code sign chapter treats garage and yard-sale signs as…

Franklin's sign code bans inflatable or balloon-type devices over 18 inches in diameter that require tethering, the…

Hendersonville exempts traditional holiday lighting from its building Design Review process, but only for up to two…

Temporary holiday lights and decorations don't need a sign permit anywhere in Memphis, under the joint Memphis and…

Home holiday inflatables like giant Santas and snowmen are exempt from sign permits and fees in Murfreesboro's…

Chattanooga's on-premise Sign Code exempts holiday decorations from its Article XIX character-area sign rules: displays…

Clarksville's sign chapter expressly exempts holiday signs and decorations carrying no commercial message. Lights and…

Holiday and seasonal lighting displays are fully exempt from Knoxville's exterior lighting standards: no footcandle…

Metro Nashville's sign code exempts holiday lights and decorations entirely from sign regulation, with no permit, size…

Sullivan County exempts non-commercial seasonal holiday displays from the Zoning Resolution's sign permit process…

Franklin's zoning code bans LED electronic message center signs and LED display screens outright: digital billboards…

Within the Central Business Improvement District, Memphis flatly bans changeable-copy ground signs of any type…

Murfreesboro's sign code flatly bans electronic graphic display signs, video display signs, and multi-vision signs in…

Sumner County bans billboards outright in the unincorporated county: Sec. 1204(N) of the Zoning Resolution prohibits…

Off-premise billboards in unincorporated Hamilton County must display a stationary message. Zoning Regulations Art. V…

Hendersonville allows electronic changeable-copy signage only at gas stations, theaters, and qualifying public sites in…

Knox County allows digital billboards, called electronic message centers, only as part of a wall or monument sign in…

Knoxville confines digital, electronic message center signs to commercial and industrial districts, requires each…

Digital billboards in Metro Nashville must sit at least 2,000 feet apart along the roadway, are confined to CL, CS, CF…

Williamson County bans flashing or revolving lights on any sign in every zoning district and caps how often an…

Chattanooga's off-premise sign code caps digital billboards to static images with automatic dimming: daytime brightness…

In unincorporated Rutherford County, electronic message signs are regulated as automatic changeable copy under Zoning…

Sullivan County allows one electronic message board on a freestanding sign in B-3, B-4, PBD, and PBD-3 districts, or at…

Window and door signs in Chattanooga can cover no more than 25% of the glass or door area they're mounted on, per…

Within the Madison Street Corridor Urban Design Overlay, window signs cannot cover more than 15% of the window area…

Franklin caps window signs at 15 percent of an individual window's area, or 15 percent of a grouped-window area, and no…

Hendersonville caps window signs at 20 percent of a building's street-facing glass, tightens that to 5 percent in…

In Knox County's TC, Town Center Zone, window signs cannot cover more than 10 percent of a storefront's window space…

In Memphis's Central Business Improvement District, permanent window signs can cover no more than 25 percent of the…

Murfreesboro caps window signage on nonresidential buildings at 25% of ground-floor window surface per façade and 15%…

Metro Nashville exempts temporary storefront window displays from sign permitting only if they're unaffixed to the…

Window signs in unincorporated Rutherford County don't need a sign permit, but Zoning Ordinance Section 1205 A.7 caps…

Window signs in Knoxville are carved out of the city's sign code entirely. Knoxville City Code, Appendix B (Zoning…

Sullivan County exempts interior window signs from the Zoning Resolution's sign permit process, but only if the sign…

Chattanooga regulates off-premise signs facing interstates and other controlled-access highways within a 660-foot-wide…

Unincorporated Hamilton County caps on-premise sign height near interstates at 30 feet within 660 feet of the…

Commercial and industrial properties near an interstate can build detached signs up to 35 feet tall, versus a 10-foot…

Billboards facing Interstate 40, 55 or 240 in Memphis are capped at 672 square feet and can only go up in Commercial…

Murfreesboro allows taller, larger 'interstate on-site' signs only within 2,000 feet of the I-24 interchange, capped at…

Businesses fronting a controlled-access highway in Metro Nashville may add one extra ground sign per 1,000 feet of…

Ground signs facing I-24 in unincorporated Rutherford County get their own category under Zoning Ordinance Section 1205…