Titusville sign permits

Most permanent signs in Titusville need a city permit before they go up, while small exempt signs and temporary signs do not.

Section 32-3 of the Titusville sign code, Chapter 32 makes it unlawful to post, display, paint, repair, replace or erect any sign in Titusville without first obtaining a permit, except for the signs Section 32-4 excludes. Routine upkeep is not caught by that rule: repainting a sign face without changing its message, repainting the structure and cleaning need no permit, but a new permit is required when the structural configuration or electrical components are altered or added, or when the sign is moved (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Where a sign is neither listed as exempt nor clearly covered, the Titusville Building Official decides whether it needs a permit (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Permits are not one-time paperwork either: the Building Official inspects permitted signs and may revoke a permit if the holder fails to fix a violation within 30 days after written notice (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Titusville exempts small signs up to 6 square feet in total, house number signs, window signs and several other categories listed in Section 32-4.

The general exemption covers signage up to an aggregate area of six square feet if it sits at least five feet from the front line and ten feet from the side line, stays ten feet from other signs and is not lit (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Separate Titusville exemptions cover signs of up to one and one-half square feet showing only an address and occupant name; parking and traffic direction signs on private property up to three square feet with no more than twenty percent advertising; occupational signs up to two square feet naming an occupant's profession; and signs required by federal, state or local law (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Window signs are exempt when attached temporarily inside a building window or glass door and covering no more than fifty percent of the transparent area of that opening, measured across the whole opening rather than pane by pane (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Legal notices posted by public bodies and public traffic or information signs also need no Titusville permit (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Titusville treats yard, real estate, construction and election signs as temporary signs, which need no permit under the sign code but must meet size, height and placement limits.

The table reproduces Table 32-5 of the Titusville sign code, Chapter 32, and Section 32-5(k) states plainly that a temporary sign does not require a permit from the City. The Titusville code defines temporary signs to include election, political, real estate, directional, construction and grand opening signs, and requires the property owner's permission for any temporary sign on a parcel (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Election seasons get extra room: for the sixty days before and seven days after any federal, state, Brevard County or Titusville election, each property may add one more temporary sign of the same size class (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Private temporary signs on public property or rights-of-way may be removed by the City or its agents without notice, and every temporary sign, including banners and sandwich boards, must be taken down and secured when the National Weather Service issues a wind advisory (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

A Titusville business may use one A-frame or sandwich board sign and temporary banners for up to 30 days per calendar year per site.

Banner limits in Section 32-5(n) cap any single banner at two hundred square feet and the banners on one property at four hundred square feet in total (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). A-frame, sandwich board and menu-board signs in Titusville may be no larger than three feet by three feet per side and four feet six inches tall, must leave five feet of clear sidewalk, must sit within fifteen feet of the building, and must come in during non-business hours (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Only businesses with an active city Business Tax Receipt at that location may put one out; the Titusville business tax receipts guide covers that license (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Inflatable balloon signs follow their own Titusville rules: no taller or wider than thirty-five feet, never on a roof or in a right-of-way, and no more than three permits per parcel each calendar year, with each permit lasting at most ten days (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

The Titusville fee ordinance prices permanent signs by the value of the work and lists temporary signs at $50.00 for a maximum of 10 days.

Both entries sit in the additional fees table of the Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021: Signs (Permanent) are charged by value, and Signs (Temporary) (Maximum of 10 days) are listed at $50.00 with a reference to Titusville LDC 39-155. That section number does not match the current sign code, where temporary signs sit in Section 32-5, and Section 32-5(k) says a temporary sign does not require a permit from the City (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). The two official sources therefore read differently on temporary signs, and the Planning Department is the office that can say which applies to a given sign.

Temporary signs are also on the Titusville list of work exempt from plan review fees (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021). Billboards have flat fees in the same ordinance: $250.00 for building plan review, $500.00 for the building permit and $200.00 for the annual license and inspection, while changing a billboard's advertising message needs no permit (Titusville fee ordinance 33-2021).

A sign that hangs over a public right-of-way in Titusville cannot be permitted until the applicant posts a bond or liability insurance of $200,000.00 per person, $200,000.00 per accident and $500,000.00 for property damage, unless the applicant has the city install the sign (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

Titusville prohibits roof-mounted signs, most portable signs, flashing lights and moving parts, and private signs on public property or a public right-of-way.

Section 32-21 lists the prohibitions: portable signs such as snipe and trailer-mounted signs unless exempt, signs on a roof or above the parapet, flashing lights that are not part of the copy, moving or rotating parts other than traditional barber poles, signs that could be confused with traffic signals or official signs, and signs that block doors, fire escapes or fire lanes (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Commercial and industrial signs next to a Titusville residential district must sit at least as far from the district line as the sign is tall (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

State law adds its own right-of-way ban on state highways. Florida Statutes section 337.407 says no person shall erect any sign within the right-of-way limits of any road on the State Highway System and several other road systems, subject to rules the state transportation department may adopt, and the department may not authorize a sign that the local government prohibits (Florida Statutes section 337.407). Titusville's code allows signs on public property only when erected by a public authority or authorized in writing under that statute (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

A Titusville sign permit application goes to the Building Official on the city's sign application form and is reviewed through the Planning Department.

The Titusville Sign Permits page says sign permits are reviewed through the Planning Department at 321-567-3782, and lists the Building Department phone as 321-567-3760. The application asks for the project address, property owner, sign contractor and license number, electrical contractor and license number, sign type (wall, ground or temporary), zoning, flood zone, Florida code edition and value of construction, with notarized signatures from the owner or agent and the contractor (Titusville sign permit application). It also warns that a notice of commencement must be recorded and posted before the first inspection, and that electrical work beyond the sign connection needs a separate permit by a licensed electrical contractor (Titusville sign permit application).

Section 32-3(b) of the Titusville code adds the drawings: two sets each of a scaled sign drawing with dimensions, materials and colors, construction details, any electrical plans and a scaled site plan with distances to property lines, plus a list of other signs on the site (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32). Ground signs over 32 square feet or more than 8 feet above grade need sealed engineering drawings (Titusville sign code, Chapter 32).

The two city pages describe access to the form differently: the Sign Permits page says applications can be downloaded from the Permits and Forms page, while that page lists the Sign Permit PDF and ADA versions among documents the Building Department provides by email request (Titusville Permits, Forms and Policies page). Last verified: October 21, 2026, against Titusville sign code Chapter 32, the Sign Permits and forms pages, the sign application PDF, the sign lines of fee ordinance 33-2021 and Florida Statutes 337.407 (Titusville Sign Permits page).