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

040(D)(3)(b) places garage sale signs among the temporary signs exempt from the chapter's sign permit requirement, but the exemption comes with three conditions. The sign cannot exceed six square feet in area, well below the 40-square-foot allowance given to most temporary real estate and construction signs under the same subsection. It can only go up one day before the sale begins and must come down promptly once the sale ends, so a weekend sale cannot be advertised a week in advance or left standing afterward.

030(N), the general prohibited-signs list that bars signs on public rights-of-way, medians, utility poles, and similar City-owned locations citywide. 040's list of permit-free signs, a garage sale sign that meets all three conditions needs no application, fee, or Building Division sign-off at all; it simply has to comply with the size, timing, and placement limits or it loses the exemption and becomes subject to the chapter's general sign-permit and enforcement provisions like any other unauthorized sign. The rule sits in the same subsection as real estate, future tenant, construction, and temporary promotional signs, all of which are permit-exempt only while they stay inside their own size and duration caps.