Parma permits residential garage sales with a permit from the Building Department. Limits are typically 3 sales per address per year, 3 consecutive days each, during daylight hours only. Items sold must be household goods, not newly purchased merchandise for resale.
Parma regulates garage sales under its zoning and peddler ordinances to prevent de facto retail in residential zones. Permits issued by the Building Department specify dates. Sales from 8 AM to 8 PM (dusk). Sale of commercial inventory, new merchandise, or regular business activity treated as unlicensed home occupation. Signs are subject to Parma Sign Code restrictions (see garage-sale-signs).
Unpermitted sale or exceeding limits: minor misdemeanor up to 150 dollars per CO 501.99. Commercial operation disguised as garage sale: zoning violation with larger fines.
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