Vallejo, CA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Signs allowed without permit
- 1 per residence
- Maximum size
- 4 square feet
- Placement rule
- At the sale residence only
- Public right-of-way signs
- Separately prohibited, infraction
- Governing section
- VMC Section 16.509.03(E)
Summary
Vallejo lets a homeowner post one garage sale sign at the residence hosting the sale without pulling a sign permit, as long as it does not exceed four square feet. Any additional garage sale signage, including signs placed away from the sale address, falls outside this exemption and needs a standard sign permit under Chapter 16.509.
E.Garage Sale Signs. Up to one sign located at the residence where the garage sale sign is being conducted and not exceeding four square feet.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Municipal Code: Update 12 - 25).
Full Breakdown
509, and garage sale signs are one of them. Subsection (E) allows exactly one garage sale sign, capped at four square feet, and it has to sit at the residence where the sale is actually happening, not at a nearby intersection or on a neighbor's lawn. 07(B) separately makes it a public nuisance, prosecuted as an infraction, to tack, post, or affix any sign, including handbills and posters, to a utility pole, tree, or other structure in the public right-of-way without the owning agency's written authorization, and each such posting counts as a separate violation.
02, including the requirement that any sign over six feet tall or requiring an electrical connection get a building permit. 01(J), and the code enforcement officer has authority to order removal of any sign that becomes dilapidated, hazardous, or abandoned.
Violations & Fines
A garage sale sign that is oversized, posted away from the sale address, or affixed to a utility pole or public right-of-way without authorization is treated as an unpermitted or unlawfully posted sign under Chapter 16.509 and the city's general penalty section, Section 1.12.010: a first offense is an infraction punishable by a fine of $100 to $500, and posting on public property under Section 16.509.07(B) makes each individual sign a separate violation, with liability extending to anyone advertised in it.
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