Columbia County requires no permit to hold a household garage or yard sale on your own residential property. The county code has no garage-sale ordinance at all. The rules you can trip over are on your signs, not the sale.
An occasional household yard sale in unincorporated Columbia County needs no county permit; the code does not define, license, or restrict residential garage sales, and the county's temporary-use permit applies to commercial seasonal and sidewalk sales, not residents clearing out their belongings. Where residents do hit real limits is signage. Garage-sale signs are temporary signs under the county sign ordinance and may not be placed in any public right-of-way or easement without an encroachment agreement. The county can remove signs illegally placed in the right-of-way without notice. Much of Evans and Martinez is HOA-governed, and those associations set their own sale and sign rules.
No penalty for holding the sale itself. Signs placed in the public right-of-way are removed by the county without notice and can draw a sign-ordinance citation.
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