Tucson, AZ Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

City Code Sec. 1 sets two hard limits on residential yard sales in Tucson. First, an owner or responsible party of residential property cannot operate, conduct, manage, or allow more than four yard sales within a single calendar year at that property. Second, no single yard sale event can exceed three consecutive days. Both limits attach to the property and to whoever runs the sale, not just the titled owner, but any 'responsible party' as defined elsewhere in Chapter 16's Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance (Ord. No.

9816, adopted Feb. 24, 2003; the yard sale limit itself was added by Ord. No. 11126, § 5, effective Nov. 6, 2013). The ordinance does not require a permit application or fee for an occasional sale that stays within these limits, the regulation is purely a frequency-and-duration cap, not a licensing scheme. ' Enforcement runs through the city's code official under Chapter 16's general enforcement authority (Sec. 16-40 through 16-51), the same office that handles other neighborhood preservation violations like illegal dumping and public nuisance conditions.

Because Sec. 1 does not set its own penalty, subsection (c) expressly routes violations to the chapter's default sanction in Sec. 16-48(2): a civil infraction, not a criminal charge, adjudicated in Tucson City Court by a magistrate. Each day the violation continues counts as a separate offense under Sec. 16-48(4), so a sale that overruns into a fourth day is a fresh violation for every extra day.