With Election Day just around the corner, the City of Covington published a reminder that political signs are not to be placed on public property. This also includes signs related to ballot initiatives.
That includes parks, medians, promenades, tree wells, the trees themselves, utility poles, street signs and strips of grass that run between public sidewalks and streets.
City staff are authorized to remove political signs in those areas, just as they can remove signs for businesses, organizations and causes placed without an encroachment permit.
Other reminders:
- Signs are also prohibited in the state-maintained right of way, i.e. along state routes maintained by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet.
- The placement of political signs on private property should occur only with the permission of that property owner. If that permission was not sought and granted, the property owner has the authority to remove that sign.