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 AND ENFORCEMENT OF RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

• 202.009.  REGULATION OF DISPLAY OF POLITICAL SIGNS.  

(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.

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

(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.