Hackensack, NJ Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

F treats garage and yard sales as an accessory use permitted at residential premises, but ties that permission to a strict annual cap: a garage or yard sale of goods and materials 'shall not be conducted more than once during any one calendar year from the same residential premises,' and any sale that does happen is limited to two days in duration. The rule is address-based, not household-based, so it follows the property even if ownership or occupancy changes mid-year. Advertising signage for the sale has its own cleanup deadline: all signs must be removed within 24 hours after the sale ends, closing off the common practice of leaving cardboard signs up on utility poles for weeks.

The section also limits what can be offered at the sale itself: no food or drink may be served as part of a garage or yard sale, with a narrow exception allowing water or food only if a health concern arises during the event, meaning operators cannot run a concurrent bake sale or refreshment stand to draw more traffic. The provision sits within Article XI, Accessory Uses and Structures, alongside the city's other accessory-use standards for parking, fences, and signage, and like those provisions it is enforced as part of Chapter 175, Zoning, not as a separate licensing scheme.