Brownsville requires no permit for a household garage sale. The zoning code grants private citizens the right to sell on their own property outright, conditioned only on frequency and duration, with no application, fee, or sign-off.
Section 4.4.5 treats garage sales as a temporary use. The neighboring provision for festivals, civic events, circuses, and carnivals expressly conditions the use on obtaining a permit; the garage sale provision carries no such condition. Chapter 22, Businesses, likewise creates permits for peddlers, itinerant merchants, going-out-of-business sales, and food vendors, but none for household sales. What a seller does need is standing as a private citizen selling on their own property. Anyone running sales as a business, or selling from a vacant lot or roadside in the section 22-1 corridors, falls under the peddler and street-sales rules instead.
Selling outside the private-citizen exemption pulls a seller into the peddler permit rules, where operating without a police chief permit is a misdemeanor.
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