Medina, OH Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Max sale length
- Three days per sale
- Frequency cap
- One sale per three-month period, per year
- Enforcing agency
- Building Department
- Penalty
- Up to $100 fine, § 703.99
- Continuing violation
- Each extra day is a separate offense
- Adopted
- Ord. 36-76, passed 4-12-76
Summary
Medina restricts garage, yard, patio, carport, basement, porch and driveway sales to no more than three consecutive days in any three-month period each calendar year, under Codified Ordinances § 703.01. The Building Department enforces the limit, and no separate permit is required to hold a qualifying sale.
(a) The sale of personal property to the general public, which sale is not part of a regular business or occupation, within the City, including, but without limitation, garage sales, patio sales, yard sales, carport sales, basement sales, porch sales and driveway sales shall not continue for more than three days in any three-month period during each calendar year. (b) The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Building Department.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2025-01: Local legislation current through June 24, 2025 | State legislation current through December 31, 2024).
Full Breakdown
01(a) covers the sale of personal property to the general public that is not part of a regular business or occupation, naming garage sales, patio sales, yard sales, carport sales, basement sales, porch sales and driveway sales specifically. Any such sale is capped at three days within a rolling three-month period during each calendar year, which in practice allows a household roughly four qualifying sales per year if properly spaced. Subsection (b) assigns enforcement to the City's Building Department rather than the Police Department, treating it as a property-use matter.
The chapter was adopted by Ord. 36-76, passed April 12, 1976, and has not been re-numbered since. Because the rule sits in Chapter 703 ("Garage Sales") rather than the peddler/solicitor licensing chapter, no license application, fee or Police Department registration attaches to a compliant sale; the exposure is purely the day-and-frequency cap. 01 itself.
Violations & Fines
Section 703.99 makes any violation of Chapter 703 punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Because the section treats a continuing violation as a fresh offense each day it occurs, running a sale past the three-day cap exposes the seller to a separate $100 fine for every additional day the sale continues.
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