Scott County plays no role in yard sales, and its cities keep it easy: Shakopee, Savage, and Prior Lake do not require a permit for an ordinary residential garage sale. The rules that bite are on signs and cleanup.
There is no county garage-sale permit in Scott County, and the metro suburbs here take a light-touch approach. Shakopee, Savage, and Prior Lake do not make residents license a normal household garage or yard sale, so you can hold one without a city permit. What each city regulates is the temporary signs: they generally cannot sit in the public right-of-way, on utility poles, or at intersections, and must come down promptly after the sale. Selling merchandise bought for resale, rather than your own household goods, crosses into transient-merchant or home-business territory, which does require licensing.
No penalty for holding a permit-free sale. Placing signs in the right-of-way or leaving them up draws sign-ordinance citations, and running a de facto retail business can trigger transient-merchant or zoning enforcement.
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