Davis, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

01 regulates all temporary signs, including garage-sale postings, placed on sidewalks, utility poles, benches, street signs and similar right-of-way fixtures. 030 bars posting or affixing a temporary sign to any of those structures unless an exception applies. 050(c) carves out a narrow exception for one-day events: a temporary sign of nine square feet or less advertising a garage sale or open house may be placed in the public right-of-way on the day of the event, but it must come down no later than twenty-four hours after the event ends.

040, and city officers and employees are authorized to abate them. 070 and take it to the municipal corporation yard, attempting to notify the owner or the printing firm named on it. 080: two dollars for a sign under nine square feet, ten dollars for a larger one. A person who disputes that the sign was posted or left up unlawfully can instead sign a promise to appear on a citation and request an administrative hearing before the public works director, who returns the sign without penalty if the posting was lawful, or imposes the fine if it was not.