Murrieta, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- § 8.20.030(U)
- Banned locations
- Utility poles, stop signs, mailboxes
- Also banned
- Landscape areas and public property
- Related rule
- § 8.20.030(R) bars right-of-way encroachments
- First-offense fine
- Up to $100 citation
Summary
Murrieta's nuisance code, Section 8.20.030(U), bars garage-sale signs from utility poles, stop signs, landscaped areas, mailboxes, and any public property. The same subsection that caps sales at four a year and three days each also controls where sale signage can go, and posting on prohibited surfaces is enforceable as a nuisance.
U. Garage sales. ... No signage is allowed to be placed on any utility poles, stop signs, landscape areas, mailboxes, or on public property.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-23: A Codification of the General Ordinances of the City of Murrieta, California through Ord. 634-26, passed 7-7-2026).
Full Breakdown
Murrieta regulates garage-sale signage inside the same nuisance provision that limits how often and how long sales can run. 030(U) states that no signage is allowed to be placed on any utility poles, stop signs, landscape areas, mailboxes, or on public property. 20's declaration-of-nuisance list, tacking a garage-sale sign to a utility pole, a stop sign, a landscaped median, or a neighbor's mailbox is treated the same as any other declared nuisance under the chapter's introductory language, which makes it unlawful for a person owning, occupying, or controlling property to maintain a violation of any listed condition.
030(R), independently bars placing objects that encroach into a public right-of-way, including streets, alleys, parkways, or sidewalks, so a garage-sale sign planted in a parkway strip or stuck into a sidewalk crack can be cited under either provision. 090.
Violations & Fines
Because posting a garage-sale sign on a utility pole, stop sign, mailbox, or public property violates the nuisance chapter, the city can issue a notice to abate the signage or bypass that process and issue an administrative citation under Section 1.26.030, up to $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second, and $500 for each violation after that within a year.
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