Walton County, GA Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Section 6-1-990, tucked into Article 6's supplemental use regulations, is Walton County's yard-sale carve-out from the Land Development Ordinance's general commercial-use rules. A private individual or group may hold a sale of used items, baked goods or other food items, but not more than twice in any six-month period, and each event is capped at three consecutive days. The section frames this as an exclusion from the LDO's normal permitting requirements for retail activity, not a blanket exemption from every county rule: the sale still has to comply with any health, zoning or other regulatory ordinance in effect, and the county can charge a regulatory fee for it.

The exclusion has a hard boundary built in. It is not available to flea market operators, promoters, performers or any other business-related operation trying to use the yard-sale label to dodge licensing; those uses instead fall under the LDO's regular temporary-use and business-license provisions, which cap similar outdoor retail activity at fixed day counts and require a special administrative permit from the Director. Because Section 6-1-990 sits under Part 6-1 rather than the health or business-licensing chapters, enforcement runs through the same Land Development Ordinance channel as any other use violation, meaning a resident who runs sales more often than twice in six months, or who lets one run past three days, is out of compliance with the LDO itself, not just a courtesy guideline.