Franklin County, KY Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Franklin County Code § 110.03(G)(15) is the only provision in the staged code that names yard sales. It defines them by two features: the event lasts three or fewer days, and articles or goods are displayed for sale at a person's dwelling. An event that meets both is outside the occupational license regime: no business license and no vendor fees are required.

The three-day line is the operative duration limit. A sale at a dwelling that runs longer than three days does not fit the yard sale definition, so the exemption in division (15) has nothing to attach to. That leaves the sale subject to the rest of Chapter 110, where § 110.03(A) requires every person engaged in business for profit to pay the occupational license tax and § 110.02 requires the Occupational Tax Office questionnaire with its $40 fee before business begins.

The yard sale rule also sits apart from the vendor fair rule next to it. A vendor fair is any event lasting seven or fewer days where vendors set up booths, and its organizer pays $10 per vendor for one to ten vendors, $250 per event for eleven to 25, $500 per event for 26 to 50, or $1,000 per event for more than 50. A yard sale at a home carries none of those fees. The distinction is the setting and the seller: a dwelling versus booths set up by multiple vendors.

No section of the code prints a limit on how many yard sales a household can hold in a year, and none requires a yard sale permit or notice to the Fiscal Court. The only numeric limit the code attaches to yard sales is the three-day duration. Neighbors and sellers who want to know whether a particular location can host sales at all should look to Chapter 155 zoning, enforced by the Department of Planning, Zoning and Building Codes Enforcement. Frankfort city rules do not apply in unincorporated Franklin County, and Frankfort has its own code.