Occasional garage and yard sales in unincorporated Clark County are treated as short temporary uses. Temporary uses of two weeks or less per year per site require registering with the county permit center first; sale signs may not sit in the county right-of-way without a permit.
Clark County Code 40.260.220 allows temporary changes in use and associated temporary structures totaling two weeks or less per year per site if the owner registers the use with the county permit services center before it begins. This framework covers residential garage and yard sales. Directional or advertising signs placed in or projecting into the county right-of-way require a written street use permit, and portable or temporary signs are otherwise restricted under CCC 40.310 sign standards. Incorporated cities set their own garage-sale and sign rules.
Unpermitted signs in the right-of-way may be removed and can draw code enforcement; exceeding the temporary-use time allowance without registration is a code violation.
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