St. Petersburg, FL Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Signs allowed
- One per property
- Max sign size
- 4 square feet
- Display timing
- Daylight hours only
- Display days
- Only on legally allowed sale days
Summary
St. Petersburg limits garage-sale advertising to one sign of no more than four square feet per property under City Code § 16.50.160.4, and that sign can only be displayed during daylight hours on the days a garage sale is legally allowed to run.
One sign of no more than four square feet may be displayed on the property where a garage sale is being conducted unless greater signage is allowed in the sign section. The sign shall only be displayed during the daylight hours on days when garage sales are allowed to be conducted.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 54).
Full Breakdown
Section 16.50.160.4 caps garage-sale signage at one sign per property, with a maximum area of four square feet, unless the City's general sign regulations allow more. The sign is restricted to daylight-hours display and only on days when a garage sale may lawfully be conducted under the companion frequency section, § 16.50.160.5, which prohibits sales (and by extension their signs) Monday through Thursday and caps each sale at three consecutive days, up to four times a year with 60 days between sales. In practice this means a resident cannot post a sign in advance of a Friday-through-Sunday sale or leave it up overnight; it has to go up and come down within the same daylight window the sale itself is permitted to operate, tying the sign rule directly to the underlying use restriction rather than treating signage as a separate, unlimited right.
Violations & Fines
Posting more than one sign, exceeding the four-square-foot size cap, or leaving a sign displayed outside daylight hours or on a day the underlying garage sale isn't permitted (Monday through Thursday, or outside the four-sales-a-year/60-day spacing limits) violates § 16.50.160.4 and § 16.50.160.5 and is a citable property-maintenance violation.
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