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SB 100 Regulating Political Signs
What the Law Says and Links to Local Ordinances
During the last general election, your neighbors to the right declared their support for their political party’s candidate by covering their front yard with the favored candidate’s signs. Your neighbors to the left took an opposing stance and responded with political signs of their own. Your association, pointing towards the association’s covenant or rule prohibiting the display of any signs within the community, took the bi-partisan stance of having both your neighbors remove the signs to avoid enforcement action.
As of June 6, 2005, SB 100 has made such blanket restrictions on the display of political signs unenforceable as against public policy. Although associations may not completely prohibit the display of political signs 45 days before and 7 days after an election, they do have the right to regulate the size and number of political signs as long as these regulations are no more restrictive than any local ordinance that regulates this issue. If no applicable local ordinance exists, an association must allow at least one sign per political office or ballot issue with the maximum dimensions of 36 x 48 inches.
What does your municipality say about the display of political signs on residential property? Click your city’s link below to determine the allowable parameters of your association’s regulations on the display of political signs within your community.
Note: The following list is current as of June 5, 2005 and is subject to change. Not all municipalities and counties have links directly to the section addressing the display of political signs. Please use the specific citations sections included to locate the relevant section within the municipal code.
MUNICIPALITIES
Arvada: Click here for the Land Development Code, see Article 6, Section 6.17.2(O)
Aurora: Click here for the Municipal Code, Article 16, Section 1611, page 12.
Boulder: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title 10, Chapter 11, Section 10-11-1(b)(3)(P)
Brighton: Click here for the Land Use Code, see Section V, Section J, Subsection 6.06 (beginning on page 23)
Broomfield: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 17, Sections 17-44-050(A)(7) and 17-44-130(C)
Castle Rock: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Section 19.04.047(B)
Centennial: Their website linked to the Arapahoe County website. Click here for the Arapahoe County Land Development Code, Section 1-3703
Cherry Hills Village: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 16, Article XV, Section 16-15-60
Colorado Springs: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 7, Article 4, Part 4, Section 7.4.406(J)(5)
Commerce City: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 21, Article II, Section 21-31(5)
Denver: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 59, Article V, Division 1, Section 59-537(a)(9)
Edgewater: Their municipal and zoning codes are not currently posted on their website. They do have an ordinance related to political signs that states that political signs may be posted on private property no more than 90 days prior to the election. The signs must be removed within 3 days after the election. Any such signs are limited in size to 6 square feet. No such signs may be placed in a right-of-way.
Englewood: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title 16, Chapter 6, Section 16-6-13(E)(2)
Erie: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 9, Chapter 4, Section 9-4-4(E)(11)
Evergreen: Evergreen is an unincorporated municipality located in unincorporated Jefferson County. Please see Jefferson County’s Zoning Resolution, Section 10, Part D.8 by clicking here.
Fort Collins: Click here for the Land Use Code, see Article 3, Division 3.8, Sections 3.8.7(C)(1)(g), 3.8.7(D)(2) and 3.8.7(L)
Glendale: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 17, Chapter 17.28, Section 17.28.010(2)
Golden: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 18, Chapter 18.32, Section 18.32.030(a)
Greeley: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title 18, Chapter 18.54, Sections 18.54.020 and 18.54.040(b)(10)
Greenwood Village: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 15, Chapter 15.46, Section 15.46.050(M)
Highlands Ranch: Highlands Ranch is an unincorporated municipality located in Douglas County. Please see the Douglas County Policy Handbook, Policy Number VII.2.2 by clicking here.
Lafayette: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 26, Section 26-21-16(b)
Lakewood: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title 17, Article 10, Section 17-10-1(3)(a)(1)
Littleton: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 4, Chapter 3, Section 4-3-2-1(H)
Lone Tree: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 16, Article 29, Section 16-29-130
Longmont: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 15, Chapter 15.06, Section 15.06.070
Louisville: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 17, Chapter 17.24, Section 17.24.170(C)
Loveland: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title 18, Chapter 18.50, Section 18.50.050
Morrison: Their municipal and zoning codes are not posted on their website. They do have an ordinance related to political signs that states that political signs may be posted on private property no more than 90 days prior to the election. The signs must be removed within 10 days after the election. Any such signs are limited in size to 4 square feet, and may be no more than 42 inches in height. No such signs may be placed on public property on in a right-of-way.
Northglenn: Click here for the Municipal Code, Chapter 11, Article 11-35, Section 11-35-4(j). See also Ordinance 676, 1982.
Parker: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 13, Chapter 13.09, Section 13.09.030(e)(2)
Sheridan: Click here for the Municipal Code, Appendix B, Section XV, Paragraph 1504(J)
Superior: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 16, Article XV, Section 16-334(a)(4)
Thornton: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 18, Article X, Division 5, Section 18-1048
Westminster: Click here for the Municipal Code, Title XI, Chapter 11, Section 11-11-6(C)
Wheat Ridge: Click here for the Municipal Code, Chapter 26, Article VII, Section 26-706(I)
COUNTIES
Adams: Click here for the Development Standards and Regulations, see Chapter 4, Section 4-13-03-02
Arapahoe: Click here for the Land Development Code, Section 1-3703
Boulder: Click here for the Land Use Code, Article 13, Section 13-300
Broomfield: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Title 17, Chapter 17-44, Sections 17-44-050(A)(7) and 17-44-130(C)
Denver: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Chapter 59, Article V, Division 1, Section 59-537(a)(9)
Douglas: Click here for the Douglas County Policy Handbook, Policy Number VII.2.2
El Paso: Click here for the Land Development Code, Chapter IV, Section 35.4, Part I.B.2
Jefferson: Click here for the Zoning Resolution, Section 10, Part D.8
Larimer: Click here for the Municipal Code, see Part II, Chapter 10, Sections 10.5.K and 10.7
Weld: Click here for the Weld County Code, Chapter 23, Article IV, Division 2.
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