Garage & Yard Sales in Montgomery County, VA (2026)
1 rule for unincorporated Montgomery County, Virginia.
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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Montgomery County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.
Frequency, Duration & Permits
Montgomery County's flea market ordinance carves out garage and yard sales from its licensing rules only if they occur no more frequently than once every sixty days, per Code Section 5-156. Sell more often than that and the sale legally becomes a flea market requiring an annual permit.
Garage Sale Frequency Limit: 60 Days
Light RestrictionsMontgomery County Code § 5-156
Flea market means the place where any person or group of vendors, whether professional or nonprofessional, offer for sale, trade or barter any goods regardless of whether they are new, used, antique, or homemade; and regardless of whether they are offered for sale in open air areas, buildings or temporary structures. The term "flea market" does not include the offering for sale of goods by the ...
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