Signs are regulated in the interest of promoting traffic safety, safeguarding public health and comfort, facilitating police and fire protection and preventing adverse community appearance. Regulations are designed to permit maximum legibility and effectiveness of signs, and to prevent their over-concentration, improper placement, and excessive height, bulk and area. Please read Article 17 for Santa Cruz County sign ordinances.

Periodically, Public Works Department will go throughout the community and remove signs that are in their right of way. If you believe your sign has been confiscated, you are able to retrieve it at both Public Works yards in Rio Rico and Nogales.

SB 1062 went into effect on September 19, 2007, and provides for a significant change in the statutes governing homeowner’s associations (HOA). As a result of SB 1062, a homeowner living in an HOA governed by these statutes will be permitted to display an industry-standard size for sale sign on the owner’s property, even if such signs are prohibited in the HOA governing documents.

This legislation has raised questions and some HOAs have developed creative interpretations of the new law. However, although there is some confusion about what authority an HOA governed by these statutes has regarding for sale signs, affected homeowners now have a right that they absolutely did not have prior to the passage of the legislation.

To report a missing street sign please call or send an email:

Mary Dahl, Director
Santa Cruz County Department of Community Development
Planning Division
2150 North Congress Drive, Suite 106
Nogales, AZ  85621
(520) 375-7930 or  mdahl@co.santa-cruz.az.us

Here are resourceful links on how to go about changing street names and what sign colors are used to determine public versus private maintained roads.   

Ordinance 1999-04 regarding street name, rename, etc.
Requirements for changing of street name
Application new street name
Application rename street name
Approval form for street name