VIDALIA — Vidalia aldermen discussed plans to instate rules to regulate the amount of time political signs can be displayed prior to and after elections.

“You have to put guidelines on it, because otherwise they’ll leave them up forever,” Alderwoman Maureen Sanders said at Tuesday’s regular Board of Aldermen meeting.

Mayor Hyram Copeland said an appropriate timeframe for signs to be displayed is 60 days before elections and 10 days after elections.

The aldermen will vote July 12, and if the motion passes, regulations will go into affect 10 days following the vote.

Aldermen also granted Miss-Lou Therapy an occupational license.

Copeland thanked everyone for his or her hard work throughout the flood.

“This was the biggest crisis we’ve had in years, and I hope I never have to experience it again,” he said. “We still have a ways to go to get it back to the way it was before the flood, but it’s going to be better than it was.”