Wayne County, IN Garage & Yard Sales: Frequency, Duration & Permits (2026)

Wayne County Code § 156.231, titled 'Yard Sales, Private or Rummage,' bars continuing a private or rummage yard sale for longer than five consecutive days, and bars the same person or the same property from hosting more than 15 total sale-days in any calendar year. The section is grouped with the county's other supplemental regulations for residential districts, immediately after the truck-parking limit at § 156.230 and the corner-lot visibility rule at § 156.229, placing it squarely within the R-district rules the Wayne County Plan Commission and Zoning Administrator apply to houses and residential lots.

The yard-sale rule also has a direct cross-reference elsewhere in the zoning chapter: § 156.227(A), which otherwise confines accessory buildings and outdoor display to the rear yard in R districts, expressly carves out an exception 'as provided in § 156.231,' so a compliant yard sale can use front or side yard space that an accessory structure could not. Because the limit counts days per person and per property rather than per sale, a homeowner who runs three separate five-day sales in one year would hit the 15-day ceiling and be barred from holding a fourth, and two different households running sales on the same property in the same year share the same 15-day allotment.