Ridgewood, NJ Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Chapter 163, Garage Sales, adopted in 1992 by Ord. No. 2358, regulates garage, lawn, attic, rummage, flea market and estate sales in the Village's residential zones. Section 163-2 makes it unlawful to conduct a garage sale in Ridgewood without first obtaining a permit from the Village Clerk, with the fee set in Chapter 145, Fees, charged per sale. The section caps duration and frequency two ways: no single garage sale may be licensed for more than two consecutive days, and no person, and separately no premises, may be the subject of more than two garage sales in any one calendar year.

That means a household that already ran two sales at its address cannot host a third even if a different family member applies, and a person who ran two sales at one property cannot run a third elsewhere in the Village that same year. Section 163-3 requires the license to be prominently displayed on the premises for the entire sale. Section 163-4 requires the applicant to file the seller's name, the property owner's consent if different from the applicant, the sale location, the number of days (capped at two), the date of any past sale, any relationship to other sales, and whether the applicant already holds any other vendor's license.

through sundown. Certain sales are exempt under § 163-7, including court-ordered sales, sales by public officials, sales of five or fewer named items, sales by properly zoned businesses, and sales by bona fide charitable or governmental organizations on their own premises. Section 163-8 lets the Police Department and Department of Buildings and Inspections enforce the chapter.