Scott County sets no cap on garage sales, and its cities generally do not limit how many you hold. The real limit is practical: sell often enough that your home looks like a store and zoning rules kick in.
Neither Scott County nor its main cities pin residents to a set number of garage sales per year the way some suburbs elsewhere do. Shakopee, Savage, and Prior Lake treat an occasional household sale as a normal residential activity, not a licensed event, so there is no fixed annual cap to track. The boundary is functional: if sales run so continuously that the property effectively operates as an ongoing retail business, it stops being a garage sale and becomes a home occupation or transient-merchant use that zoning regulates. Neighborhood-wide and community sales are treated as a single event.
No citation for a normal number of sales. Running near-permanent sales that amount to unlicensed retail can trigger home-occupation or zoning enforcement, with cease-and-desist orders and fines.
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