17.540.045 Garage Sale Permits
A. Purpose. This Section provides a process for permitting and regulating garage sales to ensure that basic health, safety, and community welfare standards are met, with the minimum necessary conditions or limitations consistent with the temporary nature of the activity.
B. Operating Standards. Garage sales are permitted in all residential zoning districts subject to the following restrictions:
1. Garage sales may be conducted no more than 3 times per residence in any calendar year, and no more than 1 permit may be issued per residence in a 3-month period.
2. A garage sale may be conducted for a maximum of 3 consecutive days. Inclement weather may extend the permitted garage sale by the number of days lost due to the inclement weather as long as the garage sale is conducted within 7 days of the original permitted garage sale date.
3. A permittee may conduct a permitted garage sale within 30 days after issuance of the permit with no penalty as long as written notice is provided to the City prior to the date of the original permitted garage sale.
4. No signs advertising a garage sale shall be placed on any public property, including, but not limited to, utility poles, street name signs, traffic signs, trees or walls. The permittee shall remove any and all legally placed advertising signs each day at or before the end of the garage sale.
5. The permittee shall be required to sign an affidavit that all goods and equipment to be displayed and sold at a garage sale have not been acquired elsewhere for resale.
6. A group garage sale at one location may be held, provided that all persons participating in the group garage sale sign the above-mentioned affidavit.
C. Permit Requirements. A permit shall be issued, without tax, upon submission of an application and filing of the affidavit mentioned in subsection B.5. Each application for a garage sale permit shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable application fee established by the City Council Fee Resolution. (Ord. 2456 ยง 2, 2010)