Lynbrook officials overcome by an avalanche of political signs this election season are sending out a warning to candidates and their volunteers: take them down or pay the price.

On Monday, Lynbrook Mayor Brian Curran said the village plans to enforce a code which mandates that campaign signs be removed no later than a week after Election Day.

“It just seems as if there is a constant influx of new signs. Even if they’re removed you will see them the next morning with new signs up,” Curran said. “People wake up and have to see their streets littered with signs that shouldn’t be there in the first place.”

Violators may face fines of up to $250, and village officials are looking into the possibility of issuing penalties directly to candidates and their campaign committees, Curran said.

“It’s mostly well-meant supporters that go out there in the middle of the night and put [them] up,” he said. “But when push comes to shove, they ultimately have to be removed and they are supposed to be removed by the candidates or the people who put them up.”

The crackdown on signage was spurred mostly by the recession, Curran said. “In times when manpower and resources are so scarce, it’s a waste of those two things to be picking up signs and removing signs that should never be there in the first place,” he said.