Bulloch County, GA Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

The Bulloch County Zoning Ordinance, Appendix C, Article 2, Section 202, defines a yard sale as the sale of used household belongings by an individual at his or her principal residence, or by a group of individuals combining items for a group sale at one of their principal residences or at the property of a non-profit entity. The frequency cap is written directly into that definition: such sales may be held no more than four times in a calendar year, and each individual sale may last no more than three consecutive days.

The ordinance also requires that all merchandise sold be the property of the person or persons holding the sale and not be purchased for resale, which keeps a yard sale from becoming an unlicensed retail operation staged out of a house. The definition folds garage sales and basement sales into the same regulated term, so calling a sale by a different name does not create a separate allowance. Because the rule sits in the zoning definitions article rather than a stand-alone permitting section, the county does not run a separate yard-sale permit desk; Planning and Development, which administers the Zoning Ordinance for the unincorporated area, is the office that answers questions about whether a sale exceeds the four-times or three-day limits.

Section 202 has been amended many times since the ordinance's original adoption on November 4, 1994, most recently through 2026, but the frequency and duration limits for a yard sale carry through those amendments as printed. A resident who runs a fifth sale in a year, or extends a sale past three consecutive days, is out of compliance with the zoning definition that authorizes the use at all, exposing the property to the same general code-enforcement process used for other zoning violations.