Pocatello, ID Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Sales per year
- 2 (one per half-year period)
- Maximum duration
- 5 consecutive calendar days
- Eligible goods
- Surplus household property only
- Salvaged/dump goods
- Not allowed
- Governing section
- City Code § 8.14.070
Summary
Pocatello lets residential lots hold one yard sale between January 1 and June 30, and a second between July 1 and December 31, under City Code § 8.14.070(A). Each sale is capped at five consecutive days and must feature only surplus household goods.
Yard Sale Periods: Nothing herein shall prohibit the owners and occupants of residential lots from conducting, or allowing to be conducted, one yard sale during the period from January 1 to June 30 and another during the period from July 1 to December 31 on said lots. ... ... 5. The personal property is offered for sale over a period not longer than five (5) consecutive calendar days.
Full Breakdown
Section 8.14.070(A) states that nothing in the code prohibits owners and occupants of residential lots from conducting, or allowing to be conducted, one yard sale during the January 1 to June 30 period and another during the July 1 to December 31 period. Subsection (B) defines when an accumulation of personal property counts as a lawful yard sale rather than a code violation: the property must be surplus household property regardless of ownership, publicly offered for sale, neatly displayed for sale (within or outside an enclosure), neatly secured within an enclosure when not being offered for sale, and offered for sale for no longer than five (5) consecutive calendar days.
Property salvaged from a garbage dump, refuse heap, sanitary landfill or other disposal facility cannot be included or offered for sale as 'surplus personal property.' If a sale runs longer than five days, exceeds the two-per-year limit, or includes salvaged dump material, it loses the yard-sale exemption and the accumulated goods can instead be treated as a prohibited nuisance accumulation under the general property-maintenance rules of § 8.14.040.
Violations & Fines
A sale that exceeds the twice-yearly limit or the five-day cap, or otherwise fails the § 8.14.070(B) conditions, forfeits its protection and can be charged as a misdemeanor nuisance under § 8.14.110, punishable under § 1.04.040 by a fine of up to $1,000, up to six months in jail, or both, with each day a separate offense.
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