Fort Mill caps yard sales at four permits per person each year, with every sale limited to two days. Rock Hill and the other towns manage frequency through their own permit systems.
Towns limit how often residents can hold sales so that a home does not turn into a de facto retail store. Fort Mill sets the clearest limit: no person may receive more than four yard-sale permits in a year, and each permitted sale may run no longer than two days. Rock Hill controls frequency through its free permit process rather than a fixed statutory cap. Because the unincorporated county has no permit requirement, it imposes no numeric limit, but repeated, ongoing sales at one address can still be treated as an unpermitted business or a nuisance.
Exceeding the four-permit annual cap in Fort Mill, or running continuous sales that amount to a business, can bring citations and a demand to obtain a proper business license.
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