Millcreek, PA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

Section 145-82A governs Temporary Signs, and its first requirement is flat: Temporary Off-Premises Signs shall not be permitted. The code defines an Off-Premises Sign as a Sign located on Premises that directs attention to a business, Person, commodity, or service not sold or located upon the Premises. A sign standing on one property and pointing to a sale somewhere else fits that definition, so a Yard Sale sign belongs on the lot where the sale takes place.

The size and build rules are specific. The maximum signage area of a Temporary Sign is five square feet unless a specific zoning district allows more, and the maximum Sign height is seven feet. Every Temporary Sign must be made of durable material and firmly secured to the ground or to an adjacent Building, and one that is frayed, torn, broken or no longer legible is deemed unmaintained. Illumination of any Temporary Sign is prohibited. The time limit for Temporary Signs is 60 days, and the same section states that there is no time limit for Signs under five square feet. A Temporary Sign that does not exceed five square feet and meets § 145-82 needs no Permit under § 145-80J.

On a lot with a single or two-Family Dwelling in a residential district, § 145-83D repeats the limits: not more than five square feet per Sign, not more than seven feet in height, and at least a ten-foot Setback from the Street Right-of-Way line.

The sale itself is defined in the Definitions section, § 145-11. A YARD SALE is a sale of limited duration conducted from the Yard, porch or garage of a Single-Family Dwelling, Detached or Duplex Dwelling, with no sales in a public Right-of-Way, limited to not more than six days or any part of a day in a calendar year. It counts as a temporary Use and not a Home Occupation. Placement is policed by § 145-81, which prohibits Snipe Signs, meaning Signs tacked, nailed, posted or glued to trees, poles, fences or streetlights or placed on public property or in the public Right-of-Way, along with Signs erected without the permission of the property owner.