Sign Regulations in Utah (2026)

Utah Code Title 20A Chapter 17 governs political campaign signs statewide. Municipalities may impose only…

Political signs on private property in Eagle Mountain may be up to eight feet tall and 32 square feet per side, city…

Layton lets campaign signs sit in the public right-of-way strip between sidewalk and curb but caps residential-zone…

Orem has no separate political-sign permit. Political signs are noncommercial signs under Chapter 14: no permit needed…

Political signs in unincorporated Salt Lake County don't need a building permit, County Code §19.82.070 exempts them…

Sandy lets noncommercial opinion signs, including political yard signs, go up without a permit in every zone and with…

West Jordan lets residents post political and other noncommercial signs without a permit under City Code section…

Political signs are exempt from Salt Lake City's sign-permit and size rules on private property, but must come down…

Washington County lets political signs go up without a permit anywhere in the unincorporated county, but every one must…

Political signs in Lehi need no sign permit at all: Section 23.070.J of the Development Code lists political signs…

Weber County places no display period, removal deadline, or number limit on political signs and requires no land use…

Garage sale signs in Eagle Mountain cannot exceed four square feet, must stay on private property unless the sale is…

Orem allows garage-sale signs as a type of accessory residential sign under City Code Section 14-3-3: no permit is…

Salt Lake City caps garage/yard sale signs at 6 square feet and 4 feet tall, one per street frontage, without needing a…

A garage sale sign in unincorporated Utah County counts as a temporary sign under UCLUO 8.24, capped at 9 square feet…

A garage-sale sign under four square feet needs no permit under Lehi's Development Code, Section 23.070.R, but it still…

South Jordan allows temporary garage sale signs up to four square feet on the seller's own property, permit-free, for…

West Jordan exempts garage and yard sale signs from its sign permit process under City Code section 12-2-5(L), so a…

St. George exempts seasonal outdoor lighting from its citywide outdoor lighting standards, but only if the display runs…

West Jordan lets businesses display an extra banner and freestanding sign during specific holiday windows under City…

West Valley City limits any inflatable sign or display to 30 days per calendar year, requires a permit, and bans…

Lehi's sign ordinance exempts holiday decorations and illuminated building accents from sign-permit requirements…

Provo exempts holiday lighting displayed during November, December, and January from its outdoor lighting shielding and…

South Jordan does not require a sign permit for holiday lights and decorations that carry no commercial message, and…

Eagle Mountain outright prohibits billboards under EMMC 17.80.130, and its code defines a billboard as any…

Salt Lake City prohibits building or converting any billboard to an electronic format, with only a narrow…

Washington County bans off-premises signs and billboards outright, and § 10-19-3(B)(12) goes further: no legally…

Weber County bans billboards outright, defining them by reference to Utah Code 17-79-102, except to the extent state…

Lehi allows zero new billboards anywhere in the City: Section 23.110.C bans permits for new construction outright…

Billboards are banned everywhere in Orem, with only a handful of grandfathered signs surviving under Orem City Code…

Provo bans new off-premises billboards outright, but an existing billboard can convert to a digital display inside the…

Off-premises billboards in unincorporated Salt Lake County may only carry electronic message centers, outdoor video…

Off-premises signs, including billboards, are banned citywide under Sandy's sign code, and any digital or LED sign that…

Off-premises digital billboards are banned citywide except in a narrow I-15 corridor, where electronic message signs…

West Jordan caps the total number of billboards, digital or not, at 14 citywide under City Code section 12-3-3(D)(5)…

West Valley City sets numeric daytime/nighttime brightness caps for electronic message signs and requires automatic…

Unincorporated Davis County has no separate digital-billboard category. Davis County Code Sec. 15.44.930 requires an…

South Jordan allows electronic message signs only as part of an approved pylon or monument sign in specific commercial…

Orem lets businesses cover up to 80% of any window's total transparent area with signage, no City permit needed. The…

In Provo's Downtown DT1, DT2, ITOD, GW, and WG zones, window signs on or inside first-floor windows of commercial…

Salt Lake City caps window signs at 25% of the total window area per floor in zoning districts citywide, with no limit…

Temporary window signs promoting a specific sale are exempt from Salt Lake County's sign code entirely under…

Sandy City limits window signs to ground-floor tenants, capping coverage at 50 percent of any single window and 33…

Washington County caps illuminated window signs at two per business and four square feet apiece under § 10-15C-11(D) of…

Window signs are allowed in every zoning district in unincorporated Weber County without a land use permit, but…

Window signs in West Valley City cannot cover more than 50 percent of a building's first-story window area, calculated…

Interior window signs advertising special promotions are exempt from Eagle Mountain's sign permit process, but they…

South Jordan lets businesses cover up to half of a window with temporary promotional displays without a permit, while…

West Jordan exempts window signs from its sign permit process under City Code section 12-2-5(K), covering posters…

Salt Lake City won't allow more billboards than already exist along its freeway gateways. I-15, I-80 and I-215 among…

South Jordan limits freestanding pylon signs facing the I-15 freeway to qualifying retail uses in the C-F Zone, allowed…

West Jordan confines freeway oriented signs to properties tied to an overall sign plan for a regional shopping center…

Lehi lets small commercial lots near I-15 put up a pylon sign, normally reserved for three-acre-plus parcels, if the…

Along 1200 West and Sandhill Road, Orem's Sign Zone E bars freestanding pole signs from facing the freeway unless the…

Off-premises billboards in unincorporated Salt Lake County face a height ceiling under Code §19.82.185.E: 35 feet in…

Only parcels fronting Interstate 15 or its frontage road, or lots within 100 feet of the I-15 right-of-way north of…

Freestanding commercial signs within 1,500 feet of an I-15 exit can rise to 50 feet and carry up to 300 square feet of…

Freestanding signs in Washington County's commercial, industrial and manufacturing zones top out at twenty-five feet…

West Valley City lets freeway-oriented pole signs and billboards along SR-201 and I-215 rise to 25 feet above the…