Mobile County issues no garage-sale rules for unincorporated areas. Alabama counties can't zone or license residential sales, so how often and how you run a yard sale is a matter of HOA covenants, not county law.
A county in Alabama has no authority to regulate residential yard sales in unincorporated territory. Mobile County sets no permit, no day limit, and no hour restriction. The Limited Self-Governance Act that grants counties nuisance and litter powers expressly withholds the planning and zoning authority a sale-regulation scheme would need. So a homeowner in the unincorporated Gulf Coast can hold a garage sale without asking the county at all. The only real limits come from a homeowners association covenant, or from the general junk and litter rules if merchandise and signs are left out afterward.
The county issues no garage-sale citation. Enforcement only appears if leftover goods, signs, or debris linger and become junk under the county Junk Control Ordinance, or if an HOA covenant is breached.
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