Peoria, IL Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Section 20-93(a) lets an owner or occupant of residential property hold, permit, or sponsor garage sales on that property, but sets two hard numeric limits: no single sale or run of sales may exceed three consecutive days, and no owner or occupant may hold, permit, or sponsor sales on the premises for more than nine total days in any rolling 12-month period. Subsection (b) defines a "garage sale" as a sale of secondhand items or materials owned by the residential owner or occupant, or owned by friends or neighbors whom the seller allows to sell alongside them, so long as everything sold relates to household use and the sale happens on the seller's residential property, such as a garage, carport, driveway, patio, or lawn.

The code doesn't layer a separate permit or license requirement on top of these day limits; instead, elsewhere in Chapter 18 the city specifically exempts "[g]arage sales as that term is defined in section 20-93" from the peddler, solicitor, and consumer-show licensing rules that otherwise apply to transient sellers, so a compliant garage sale doesn't need a peddler's license as long as it stays within the frequency and definition limits of § 20-93.