No county ordinance sets garage-sale hours in unincorporated Champaign County, and the cities impose no special sale-hour rule. Practically, sales run in daylight; the real limits are the general noise ordinance and same-day cleanup.
The unincorporated county sets no start time, end time or day-of-week limit on residential yard sales because it does not regulate them. Champaign and Urbana likewise leave sale hours to common practice rather than a dedicated ordinance, so sales run during daylight on whatever days the seller chooses, weekends being most common. The constraints that do bite are indirect: each city's noise ordinance limits early-morning or amplified disturbance, and property-maintenance rules require merchandise, tables and signs cleared from public view after the sale. Adequate off-street or on-street parking that doesn't block traffic keeps a busy sale from drawing complaints.
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 the sale can draw a property-maintenance citation in the cities.
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