Flint, MI Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- License fee
- $12 first, $5 second
- Frequency
- 2 licenses per 12 months
- Duration
- Max 4 consecutive days
- Hours
- 8 a.m.–8 p.m.
- Violation fine
- $100 civil infraction
Summary
Any garage sale in the City of Flint requires a City Clerk-issued license, limited to twice per person in a 12-month period and no more than four consecutive days per sale.
It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct a garage sale in the City without first filing with the City Clerk the information specified below, and by obtaining from the City Clerk a license to do so... Such license shall be issued to any one person only twice within a 12-month period and no such license shall be issued for more than four consecutive calendar days.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2016 Code: Local legislation current through Ordinance 3821, passed 3-1-2012).
Full Breakdown
The City of Flint requires anyone holding a garage, yard, lawn, attic, rummage, estate, or flea-market sale to first file information with the City Clerk and obtain a garage sale license, per City Code § 12-264. The first license costs $12 and a second costs $5. Under § 12-265, the City Clerk may issue a license to the same person only twice within any 12-month period, and each license covers no more than four consecutive calendar days, with sales permitted only between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. A death-in-the-family exception allows one additional license per year with proof of residency and a death certificate.
Violations & Fines
Conducting an unlicensed garage sale, or violating any other term of the article, is a municipal civil infraction carrying a $100 fine under § 12-269; each day the unlicensed sale continues is a separate violation.
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