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

010, the yard, patio, or garage sale of personal items open to the general public from a residential property. The section lets a garage sale sign go up 'at any location where otherwise legally permissible,' meaning it still has to satisfy whatever placement rules apply to signs, such as not blocking sight lines at an intersection or standing in the public right-of-way, but it adds two garage-sale-specific limits on top of those. First, the sign cannot exceed four square feet in area, smaller than most temporary real estate or contractor signs allowed elsewhere in the code.

Second, the timing window is tight: a sign cannot go up more than twenty-four hours before the sale starts and must come down within twenty-four hours after the sale ends, so a sign for a Saturday-through-Sunday sale cannot appear before Friday and has to be removed by Monday. The section also requires every sign to state the actual dates of the sale on its face, so a code enforcement officer or neighbor can tell from the sign itself whether it is still within the lawful posting window. 020 gets a correspondingly later legal removal date for its signs.