Lodi does not require a city permit or business license for occasional residential garage sales. Garage sales are regulated as residential incidental uses under LMC Chapter 9.20 (Recreational and Garage Sales), subject to time, place, and frequency limits.
Lodi takes a light-touch approach to residential garage sales: no city permit, business license, or registration is required for occasional sales of household goods by the resident. The regulation in LMC Chapter 9.20 instead focuses on preventing residential garage sales from becoming an ongoing retail business — by capping frequency, restricting sale hours to daytime, and limiting the types of items that may be sold (used household goods of the resident, not new merchandise from outside sources). The companion sign rules in LMC 17.34 prohibit placing garage-sale signs on utility poles, in parkways, or on traffic infrastructure.
Operating in excess of allowed frequency, or running a retail business under the guise of a garage sale, can be cited as a zoning/business-license violation enforced by Community Improvement.
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