Chula Vista, CA Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Sales per year
- 2 maximum per person/address
- Duration per sale
- 10 consecutive days maximum
- License fee
- Free if obtained before the sale
- Issuing office
- Director of Finance
- Penalty
- Infraction under Ch. 1.41 CVMC
Summary
Chula Vista caps garage sales at two per calendar year per person or address, with each sale limited to 10 consecutive days. A license from the Director of Finance is required, and it's free if obtained before the sale.
There shall be no tax for a garage sale license obtained prior to the sale. If the license is not obtained prior to the sale, the license tax shall be as presently designated... No more than two garage sales may be conducted by the same Person or Persons or at the same place within the same calendar year. A garage sale license shall be limited to a period of 10 consecutive days per sale.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 3623, passed May 19, 2026).
Full Breakdown
030 requires a license from the City before any resident, group, organization or club holds a garage sale, obtained from the Director of Finance either in person or by phone (the office mails the application form and the resident mails it back). 030. The application must disclose the name and address of the seller(s), the sale location and the area of the premises to be used, a description of the property offered, the dates and time period of the sale, and a sworn affidavit that the sellers own the goods, that everything is secondhand, and that no more than one previous garage sale has been held that calendar year.
020, which independently caps any single sale at 10 calendar days and clarifies 'garage sale' covers sales anywhere on the premises, not just in a garage. 040 separately bars selling firearms, ammunition, explosives, animals, livestock, or any item with a removed serial number at a garage sale. 060.
Violations & Fines
Running a garage sale without the required license, or exceeding the two-sales-per-year or 10-consecutive-day limits, is an infraction under CVMC 5.32.060, cited through the administrative citation process in Chapter 1.41 CVMC. Selling prohibited items such as firearms or serialized goods with removed numbers under CVMC 5.32.040 is a separate violation of the same chapter.
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