Aiken County, SC Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Frequency cap
- 4 sales per calendar year
- Max duration
- 2 days per sale
- Applies to
- Residential districts
- Permit required
- None stated in section
Summary
Aiken County allows garage, yard, tag, patio, and apartment sales in every zoning district, but Section 24-8.9 caps residential-district sales at four per calendar year with a maximum of two days per sale.
Garage, yard, tag, patio and apartment sales are permitted in all districts. However, such sales shall be limited in residential districts to four (4) per calendar year, with a maximum duration of two (2) days per sale.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 119).
Full Breakdown
9 is a single, short provision: garage, yard, tag, patio and apartment sales are permitted in all districts, but such sales shall be limited in residential districts to four per calendar year, with a maximum duration of two days per sale. The four-per-year cap and two-day duration limit apply only to sales held in a residential zoning district; the code does not extend the same numeric cap to sales held in commercial or other nonresidential districts, where the broader all-districts permission governs without the residential frequency and duration add-on.
6, including the 30-day display window and no-sidewalk-obstruction condition for A-frame signs, apply if a resident posts directional signage advertising the sale. There is also no stated limit on how many separate households can combine a sale at one address, and the code counts sales per calendar year rather than per rolling twelve months, so a resident's count resets each January 1.
Violations & Fines
A resident holding a fifth garage sale in a calendar year, or extending a sale past two days, is in violation of Section 24-8.9 and subject to enforcement under Section 24-9.1: the planning and development director can issue written notice and order the excess sale discontinued. There is no fine schedule specific to this section in the text reviewed; enforcement follows the same notice-and-correction process used for other chapter 24 violations.
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