No county ordinance sets garage-sale hours in unincorporated Elkhart County, and Elkhart city imposes none specific to sales. Daytime hours are customary; the real limits are general noise and nuisance rules and any HOA covenant.
Neither the unincorporated county nor the City of Elkhart fixes start or end times for residential yard sales, since neither licenses them. In practice sales run in daylight, roughly morning to early evening, and the binding constraints are indirect. General nuisance and noise rules apply: amplified sound or an early-morning disturbance can draw a complaint anywhere in the county. An HOA covenant may set daytime-only hours. And everything must be cleared and signs pulled at the end of each sale day so leftover goods don't become a property-maintenance violation.
No county or city hours citation exists for the sale itself. Excessive noise can draw a nuisance complaint, and goods or signs left out after hours can be cited as blight under Chapter 92 or Chapter 99.
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