Tuscaloosa, AL Property Maintenance: Garage Sale Rules (2026)

Tuscaloosa does not publish a dedicated garage-sale or yard-sale permit ordinance with frequency caps in its Code of Ordinances; routine household yard sales are largely unregulated. The one place the code directly addresses yard and garage sales is Section 13-67.2(e)(2), a defense within the nuisance rule that otherwise bars leaving furniture exposed outdoors. That provision allows furniture to be placed outside temporarily for a yard or garage sale only if all of these conditions are met: the furniture is outside only between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.; the seller or an agent is present outside to monitor the sale; a sign is placed on or near the furniture indicating it is for sale; and — critically for upholstered furniture — it is not left outside more than two days in any six-month period. Section 13-79.2 separately prohibits posting signs or advertisements on streets, sidewalks, utility poles, trees or other public structures, which limits where sale signs may be placed. Anyone selling regularly enough to require a business license should note Section 7-16 requires a business license for activities on which the city levies one; a one-off household yard sale is generally not such an activity. Confirm any business-license question with Revenue at Tuscaloosa 311.