CLIFTON PARK — The giant “Sandy Treadwell for Congress” signs in the town are coming down.

About six 4-by-8-foot lawn signs are being removed after the town attorney apparently changed his mind about whether they are legal.

The Treadwell campaign agreed to remove all the oversized signs in the town after getting a call Wednesday morning from Town Attorney Tom McCarthy, said Bill McGahay, campaign manager.

“He asked if we would be willing to take the signs off private property. I said, ‘Absolutely,’” McGahay said.

Before that, Steven Myers, director of building and zoning, said the signs were OK as long as they were on private property. Myers said last week he had spoken to McCarthy about the issue in the past and the attorney said political signs are allowed on private property under the First Amendment no matter how big they are.

But the town code states political signs can measure up to 4 square feet in the residential district and up to 16 square feet in the business district, and it doesn’t mention making an exception for private property. Treadwell’s giant green-and-white signs take up 32 square feet.

McCarthy couldn’t be reached for comment Wednesday, but he apparently changed his opinion after the issue was raised at a Town Board meeting Monday night.

Town Democratic Chairman Todd Kerner, who broached the subject at the meeting, said he’s glad the signs will go.

“I’m disappointed it took such an effort for them to follow the law,” he added.

He said there’s a double standard for political signs in the Republican-controlled town.

Kerner said officials didn’t appear to change their minds on the issue during the meeting so he was surprised to hear the signs will be removed.

McGahay noted that Treadwell has at least 90 large signs spread throughout the district’s 10 counties, but no one has complained about them except in Clifton Park, which has about six signs.

“That’s not a lot of signs for a very large town,” he said.

In Clifton Park, some of the big signs are located in prominent places, including on Route 9 north of the post office, on Route 146 near Friday’s and CVS and on Route 146 heading toward Rexford.

The Treadwell campaign removed one of the large signs earlier because it wasn’t clear whether or not it sat on private property. Districtwide, a couple of the big signs have been knocked down, McGahay said, and smaller lawn signs have been stolen, prompting the Treadwell camp to get the state police involved.