The removal of campaign signs will no longer be left to a whim in Harmar.

The township supervisors have approved a policy about how long candidates have after an election to remove their signs from township rights of way.

Former Supervisor Linda Slomer complained earlier this year that her signs for tax collector were removed shortly after the primary.

Now, candidates will have 10 days after an election to remove signs, after which township public works employees will take them down.

Signs will then be held for seven days at the township garage. If they go unclaimed, they will be thrown out.

Supervisor Bob Seibert said that in the past, the township has generally given political candidates about a week after an election to retrieve signs from township rights of way.

But Seibert said the public works crew hasn't always done that, sometimes waiting to be told to do it by a township supervisor, which created confusion.

“The guidance to the road crew will be clearly set forth in writing,” Seibert said. “This is a set policy so that no one supervisor can say, ‘Don't take those signs down' or ‘Take those signs down.' They can just go ahead and do it.”

In addition, the public works crew will immediately take down any signs from township rights of way advertising a product or service for which the township has not issued a permit.

Tom Yerace is a freelance writer.

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