Waterborne Signs/Billboards

Throughout Florida people are forming new companies to advertise via large scale LED Billboards aboard boats.    Some ordinances prohibit these displays and the City of Stuart defines prohibited “Waterborne Signs” as :

“A sign displayed on a vessel plying the waterways, excluding those required by law for the identification of the vessel.”

Precedent for regulation of waterborne signs exists in the state of Florida:  Stuart, Delray Beach, St. Petersburg and elsewhere.

City of Stuart

Sec. 6.11.16. Prohibited signs(Ord. No. 2206-10, 07-12-10)

http://www.cityofstuart.us/index.php/land-dev-code

City of St. Petersburg

Sec. 16.40.20.3.3

Additionally there may be countywide and FDOT regulations that probit this form of advertising on some waterways.