Pasco County, FL Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Section 22-73 of the Pasco County Code, part of Chapter 22's Article V (Secondary Metals Recyclers), defines a 'Garage sale, estate sale or lawn sale' as any transaction or secondhand goods or precious metals by any seller on premises, owned by the seller, and which must be primarily used as a dwelling or residence of the seller, and can occur no more than four times on the same premises within a calendar year. Three conditions apply together: the seller must own the property, the property must primarily be used as the seller's home, and the same address cannot host more than four qualifying sales in one calendar year.

The definition was written to distinguish a resident's occasional yard sale from a 'secondhand dealer,' defined in the same section as any person who is transacting in secondhand goods on an ongoing basis. Article V itself, however, only imposes registration, recordkeeping, and inspection duties on 'secondary metals recyclers' (§§ 22-74, 22-75, 22-77); it does not spell out a separate license, permit, or fine specifically for a homeowner who exceeds four sales in a year. Pasco's dedicated Secondhand Dealers licensing article, formerly codified at §§ 22-91 through 22-103, was repealed by Ordinance No.

12-08 in 2012, so no current chapter provision states what happens once a household crosses the four-sale threshold. The four-per-year figure remains the operative benchmark in the code for what counts as a garage sale rather than ongoing secondhand dealing.