Mountain Home City Clerk Scott Liles is urging residents to remove political yard signs associated with last Tuesday’s general election by Sunday. Under the city’s sign ordinance, residents are required to take down election signage within five days of the polls closing.

Mountain Home Ordinance No. 2025-26 permits political yard signs to be displayed up to 60 days before an election but mandates their removal shortly after the election concludes. This means that for the 2026 general election, residents have until November 8 to clear their yards of political signs, except in cases involving runoff elections.

Candidates advancing to a runoff scheduled for December 1 may leave their signs in place through the runoff period. Those signs, however, must be removed by December 6, which is five days after the runoff election.

Residents failing to comply with the sign-removal deadline could incur daily fines of $25 for each sign left on display. Liles explained that homeowners, rather than the political candidates, hold responsibility for taking down the signs under the revised ordinance. Previously, candidates were considered liable for the late removal of yard signs.

“When we updated the ordinance last year, the idea was that the homeowner had the final say on what was or wasn’t on display in his or her yard—not the candidate,” Liles explained. “So, if the sign is in your yard, you are ultimately responsible for its timely removal. And to me, that just makes more sense than trying to ticket the governor, for example, for having a yard sign out too long in a yard here in Mountain Home.”

Liles noted that compliance with the ordinance has not been a major issue in the city. Potential violations, he said, are typically resolved by notifying either the homeowner or the candidate involved.

“As a candidate myself, I know just how expensive those signs are to get printed,” Liles said. “Most candidates will keep a running list of where their signs are and then go by and pick them up to hopefully use again in the next election. Most candidates would rather pick up a sign for eventual reuse rather than have it end up in the trash.”

Residents with questions about the city’s political sign ordinance can contact Scott Liles at (870) 425-5943 or by email at sliles@MountainHomeAR.gov.