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The Federal and Provincial Election Acts prevent the municipality from prohibiting the placement of election signs on municipal properties. However, such signage can be regulated in size and placement location.
To that end, election signs shall not:
a) Be placed upon municipally-owned parcels of land such as the municipal hall, recreation centre or public parks;
b) Be placed upon municipal road allowances immediately abutting municipally-owned parcels of land or a public school;
c) Be placed within landscaped medians or traffic islands located within municipal road allowances;
d) Exceed 0.37 square metres (4 square feet) in size when placed on a municipal road allowance.
Any election sign may be removed by the Township:
a) at the direction of the Director of Community Safety Services or Bylaw Management Officer if in their opinion the location of the sign poses a safety hazard; or
b) if the election sign does not comply with the regulations set out above and the candidate or candidate’s representative has failed to remove the election sign following 24 hours’ notice from the Township to do so.
If you have concerns about election signs not respecting the above conditions, please let us know.
The above is per Council Policy NO. ADMIN - 69.
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