3 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Johnson County, Iowa.
Verified from official government sources
No garage-sale permit is required in Johnson County — not in the unincorporated area and not for ordinary residential sales in Iowa City, Coralville or North Liberty. Coralville even runs an organized city-wide garage-sale weekend each year.
Johnson County sets no cap on how often you can hold a yard sale, and Iowa City, Coralville and North Liberty impose no fixed yearly limit. The real brakes are an HOA covenant or selling so continuously it reads as running a business.
No ordinance sets garage-sale hours in Johnson County or its cities. Sales run in daylight by custom, and the limits that actually bite are the noise ordinance and same-day cleanup of merchandise and signs.
1 cities in Johnson County have their own garage & yard sales rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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