Logan, UT Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Logan Municipal Code § 5.28.010 sets the only numeric garage sale threshold found in Titles 1 through 15 of the exported code. An individual who holds or participates in more than four garage sales in one calendar year, with each sale running a maximum of 3 days, falls inside the definition of a garage/yard sale dealer. The same section folds that label into the broader word "dealer," alongside secondhand dealers, junk dealers, antique dealers and secondhand precious metal dealers. The count follows the individual, and the definition reaches a person who merely participates in a sale as well as the person who hosts it.

Section 5.28.020 then makes it unlawful to operate as a dealer without first obtaining a business license and paying the fees required by § 5.02.190. That section leaves dollar amounts to a schedule of fees established and amended by resolution of the Municipal Council, so the current figure lives in the fee schedule and not in the code text.

Dealer status carries record keeping duties. Under § 5.28.030 a dealer records purchases or receipts of electronic items, jewelry other than costume jewelry, and coins on a two part form previously approved by the police department, and both copies are delivered to a representative of the Logan City Police Department. Section 5.28.040 makes it unlawful for a licensee to fail to submit a copy of all entries or required records to the police department upon demand. Section 5.28.050 bars accepting goods or pledges from anyone under eighteen unless that person is married.

The business license chapter also carries an exemption in § 5.02.030 for a business operated only occasionally by an individual under eighteen years of age; the Administrator evaluates size, frequency, duration, visibility and seasonality. Zoning rules for sales on residential lots would sit in Title 17, the Land Development Code, which is not part of the text reviewed for this page.