Of course you are right about public rights of way.
I did specify private property in the original post though. I should have made clear that I was referring to private single family residential property. Sorry for the omission.

@dumasarok I understood what you meant. I chose to comment on a slightly different angle. I acknowledged your qualification of private property.

In my area, you cannot place signs between the sidewalk and the street, which is where the buried gas lines, electrical lines, sewer pipes, etc. are. This is so the area is accessible to service crews. That area belongs to the city, even tho you are supposed to keep the grass mowed. Go figure.

@TomMcGiverin That is the law in most places, it is a safety concern and if you have seen the tire tracks that make it that far up, you understand.

@glennlab I do. It's disturbing that some people drive that far over the curb.

In my home state, nothing on public property; and, a size limit. In my new state, apparently anything goes! People have permanent shrines to trump! Massive signs, with flags … saw my first trump ‘above’ the US flag last week.. Oh, often with ‘confederate flags,’ too.

So, with locals plugging Republican candidate signs in at every intersection, obviously on ‘public property,’ I decided to ‘match them.’ Lots of effort, with the usual precarious vehicle moves.. But I matched em!

...some may have lasted a day, some a couple.. Usually, by 3 days ‘ours’ were gone. Sure, some local facebook whining, but again, no respect for fairness, no ethics or decency from the opposition - period -- had someone tell me, “You do know, you’re in the South.”

@Varn We had the local republican party complain that some of our signs were in the right of way. The city called us and we moved them, they sent a crew out 24 hours later and removed every sign that was in the right of way and sent a bill to the county parties for the removal. Our bill $0, the republicans had at least 3 pickup truckloads removed, they thought the law didn't apply to them since they had been the ones to point out the violation.

@glennlab The R’s back home would plaster highway right of ways ..maybe a week before the election, realizing it would likely take a month for the authorities to actually remove them. ...with the help of my wife, our van, and an early civics lesson for the kids … I recycled a lot of signs that season!

I’d done signs for the good guys so long.. ..we’d have yearly gatherings of state party officials and candidates where all I’d do is line the entry walk with a couple decades worth of ‘our people,’ hang out with a friend (no interest in the official doings inside), then hall em home afterwards. Always a hit, I’m told some folks would come to tears.. Others wanted to purchase some! Nope, those dudes were hard earned

@Varn Determining who the "good guys" are is highly subjective. It depends on your point of view and the value judgements you make.

@dumasarok No, spotting the good guys (& gals) is not that difficult. Defeating the bad ones is..

I think it was Al Bundy who said "it's only cheating - - -if you get caught". One of his funnier lines!

@dumasarok I also think it's sort of like Nixon's thinking after getting caught on Watergate, " If a president does something, then it must be legal".. Al Bundy, my sometime alter-ego, as far as the times I feel like I've lost my will to live....but then I think of Al and realize my life could be worse.. I could be married to Peg and have two kids that want to kill me in my sleep for the insurance money...

The jerks around here with this destroy the plants as well.

@Lorajay That's so shameful! And speaks to what kind of people they are. It gives me some satisfaction that my agaves will impale them with hundreds of needles if they even get close, so they'll be scratching themselves for a long time.