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

' The limit is tied to the lot, so a change in ownership or occupancy during the 12-month window does not reset the count; three sales, three days apiece, is the ceiling for that address for any rolling year. The provision traces back to Code 1992 § 20-5-23 and was carried forward by Ordinance No. 2012-09 in 2012. Because § 110-82 sits among the same residential accessory-use standards as the county's rules on accessory structures, temporary storage and fences, Planning and Zoning treats a garage sale as a temporary residential activity rather than a business use requiring a business license or occupation tax certificate, so long as it stays within the three-sale, three-day cap.

A resident hosting a fourth sale, or extending a sale past three days, falls outside that treatment and would need to stop the activity. The code does not set separate hour-of-day restrictions or signage rules for garage sales in this section, so those questions fall to the county's general sign and noise provisions elsewhere in the Code.