Posting signs on your separate interest

YES YOU CAN!
Your HOA can’t stop you from Posting political (or any non-commercial) signs on your front door

If you live in a condominium building you might have had a representative from your HOA tell you that you can’t post a political sign, or holiday decoration, or other sign on your front door. If the sign you are attempting to post is (1) non-commercial and (2) smaller than 9 sq. ft. your HOA cannot, in fact, prevent you from posting it.

CA Civil Code §4710 guarantees you the right to put up any non-commercial sign that is smaller than 9 sq. ft. 

Here is the law section: 

(a) The governing documents may not prohibit posting or displaying of noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners on or in a member's separate interest, except as required for the protection of public health or safety or if the posting or display would violate a local, state, or federal law.

(b) For purposes of this section, a noncommercial sign, poster, flag, or banner may be made of paper, cardboard, cloth, plastic, or fabric, and may be posted or displayed from the yard, window, door, balcony, or outside wall of the separate interest, but may not be made of lights, roofing, siding, paving materials, flora, or balloons, or any other similar building, landscaping, or decorative component, or include the painting of architectural surfaces.

(c) An association may prohibit noncommercial signs and posters that are more than nine square feet in size and noncommercial flags or banners that are more than 15 square feet in size.

If you have any questions, please contact us here at YIMBY Law: sonja@yimbylaw.org