Rules for Candidate Signage and Early Voting Satellite Locations

For the period of time when such a City facility is open for voting and seven days prior, signs and expressive activities shall be permitted in the areas adjacent to the facility to the extent allowed by the City's Zoning Ordinance and applicable state law. 

The City reserves the right to impose additional reasonable content- and viewpoint-neutral regulations necessary to permit safe and efficient operation of the voting location.

The attached map, incorporated herein as Exhibit B, provides the locations of where signs are prohibited or limited in size for Agriculture/Voter Registration & Elections, Building 14 at the Municipal Center.

Absentee (Satellite) Voting Site: Allow signage only in petitioning areas as designated in the City of Virginia Beach Petitioning Administrative Directive and approved maps up to seven days prior to voting start date at those locations only.

Voting Day Sites: Signage (40 ft. away from facility) on election day but only in the petitioning areas beginning after midnight on the day prior to election day voting.

Non-Voting Sites: No signage is allowed.

Additional request: All signs must be removed within 24 hours of voting.