Chapter V · Business Regulations

ARTICLE 3. GARAGE SALES

Sections 5-301 to 5-305 · 5 sections

5-301 Definitions.

(a)Garage Sales — shall mean and include all sales entitled garage sale, lawn sale, attic sale, rummage sale, flea market sale, or any similar casual sale of tangible personal property which is advertised by any means where the public at large is or can be made aware of the sale.

(b)Goods are meant to include any goods, warehouse merchandise or other property capable of being the object of a sale regulated hereunder.

(c)Person — shall mean and include individuals, partnerships, voluntary associations, and corporations.

(Ord. 862, Sec. 1)

5-302 Permits and fees.

It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct a garage sale in the city without first filing with the city clerk the information hereinafter specified and obtaining from such clerk a license to do so, to be known as a Garage Sale License. The fee for such license shall be $2.50. During city wide garage sales, the fee shall be $11; said fee shall include listing on sale maps and city wide advertising and shall apply whether or not the licensee requests to be omitted from maps and advertising.

(Ord. 1097, Sec. 1; Code 2003)

5-303 Licensing.

Such license shall be issued to any one person or to any group of persons for a sale or sales at any one location only four times within a 12 month period and no single license shall be issued for more than four consecutive calendar days.

Each license issued under this article must be prominently displayed on the premises upon which the garage sale is conducted throughout the entire period of licensed sale.

(Ord. 862, Sec. 3)

5-304 Information to be filed.

The information to be filed with the city clerk, pursuant to this article, shall be as follows:

(a)Name of person, firm, group, corporation, association or organization conducting the sale.

(b)Name of owner of the property on which the sale is to be conducted, and consent of owner if applicant is other than owner.

(c)Location at which sale is to be conducted.

(d)Number of days of sale.

(e)Date, nature of any past sale either by applicant or at same location.

(f)Relationship or connection applicant may have had with any other person, firm, group, organization, association or corporation conducting the sale and the date or dates of such sale.

(g)Whether or not applicant has been issued any other vendor’s licensed by any local, state or federal agency.

(h)Sworn statement or affirmation by the person signing that the information therein given is full and true and known to him or her to be so.

(Ord. 862, Sec. 4)

5-305 Persons, places and sale expected.

Any person, association, or corporation conducting any such sale without being properly licensed therefore or who shall violate any of the other terms and regulations of this article, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 or be imprisoned for a period not to exceed 10 days for each violation.

(Ord. 862, Sec. 5)