Yard Signs

For Sale / Open House Signs:
For sale / open house signs are completely prohibited in Avalon Place, per the Avalon Property Owners Association Deed Restrictions.

Estate / Garage / Yard Sale Signs:
Estate, garage, and yard sales are completely prohibited in Avalon Place, per the Avalon Property Owners Association Deed Restrictions.

Political Signs:
Property Code, Chapter 202. Construction & Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants
Section 202.009. Regulation of Display of Political Signs

(http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PR/htm/PR.202.htm)

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, a property owners' association may not enforce or adopt a restrictive covenant that prohibits a property owner from displaying on the owner's property one or more signs advertising a political candidate or ballot item for an election:

(1) on or after the 90th day before the date of the election to which the sign relates; or

(2) before the 10th day after that election date.

(b) This section does not prohibit the enforcement or adoption of a covenant that:

(1) requires a sign to be ground-mounted; or

(2) limits a property owner to displaying only one sign for each candidate or ballot item.

(1) contains roofing material, siding, paving materials, flora, one or more balloons or lights, or any other similar building, landscaping, or nonstandard decorative component;

(2) is attached in any way to plant material, a traffic control device, a light, a trailer, a vehicle, or any other existing structure or object;

(3) includes the painting of architectural surfaces;

(4) threatens the public health or safety;

(5) is larger than four feet by six feet;

(6) violates a law;

(7) contains language, graphics, or any display that would be offensive to the ordinary person; or

(8) is accompanied by music or other sounds or by streamers or is otherwise distracting to motorists.

(d) A property owners' association may remove a sign displayed in violation of a restrictive covenant permitted by this section.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1010, § 1, eff. June 18, 2005.