Anaheim, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Sign size limit
- 3 square feet
- Signs allowed
- 1 in front yard; 2 on corner lot
- Earliest posting
- 1 hour before sale start
- Removal deadline
- Within 1 hour of sale end
- Public right-of-way
- Signs prohibited there entirely
Summary
Garage sale signs in Anaheim must stay on the sale property itself, cannot go up more than one hour before the sale starts, and are capped at one 3-square-foot sign in the front yard (two on a corner lot). No sign can be posted in the public right-of-way or on a pole, sign, or vehicle.
Signs advertising a garage sale shall be placed only on the property where the garage sale is being held and shall not be erected earlier than one (1) hour before the commencement of the garage sale. No sign advertising a garage sale may be placed within a public right-of-way or be affixed to any telephone pole, street light, traffic sign or traffic control device, any other structure located within a public right-of-way, or on any other public property. No flag or any other device intended to attract attention to the garage sale shall be displayed.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-28: Code: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ord. 6627, passed 8-11-2026 | Zoning: Local legislation current through Ord. 6627, passed 8-11-2026).
Full Breakdown
070 requires that signs advertising a garage sale be placed only on the property where the sale is held and bars erecting a sign more than one hour before the sale begins. No sign may be placed within a public right-of-way or affixed to a telephone pole, street light, traffic sign, traffic control device, any other structure in the right-of-way, or any other public property, and no flag or attention-getting device may be displayed. 080 caps signage at one sign no larger than three square feet in the front yard; a corner lot may add a second sign, also capped at three square feet, in the street side yard.
No sign or advertisement for a garage sale may be posted on any vehicle. 090 requires that all signs, along with the personal property and materials used for the sale, be removed within one hour after the sale ends, so a sign left up overnight or beyond that window is itself a separate violation on top of the underlying sale.
Violations & Fines
A garage sale sign that violates Section 6.26.030.070 or .080, whether it is oversized, posted too early, left up past the one-hour removal deadline in .090, or placed in the public right-of-way, is enforced as part of Chapter 6.26 under the Section 6.26.050 infraction schedule: up to $100 for a first violation, up to $200 for a second violation within a year, and up to $500 for each additional violation, with a fourth violation in a year charged as a misdemeanor.
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Sources & Official References
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