Orange County, FL Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

Section 25-31 of the Orange County Code limits garage-sale advertising to a single sign or poster of no more than four square feet, and that sign cannot be planted in the public right-of-way, the shoulder and swale the county controls along every street. The sign has to come down "immediately at the conclusion of such sale," so leaving a placard up the day after the sale ends is itself a violation, not just an oversight.

The sign rule sits inside Article II of Chapter 25, which regulates every garage sale held in the unincorporated county. Section 25-29 requires a permit from the zoning department before the sale starts, good for a maximum of seventy-two hours and displayed on the premises during the sale; the board of county commissioners may charge a fee to cover the cost of issuing it. Section 25-28 caps a garage sale at forty-eight hours and no more than once every six months on the same lot, parcel or tract. Section 25-27(b)(5) separately bars parking commercial vehicles, tractor-trailers, semitrailers and long-bed trucks, in the residential area where the sale is held, and Section 25-32 makes the person running the sale responsible for controlling vehicle parking so it does not block driveways or create a hazard on the adjacent street. Section 25-33 lets the county refuse or revoke the permit outright if the items being sold or the sale location would harm public health, safety or welfare.