Tulare County does not publish a dedicated garage-sale-sign ordinance. Temporary garage-sale and directional signs in unincorporated areas are limited by the County Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 352) sign standards, and County Code section 2-09-1005 prohibits attaching them to poles, trees, or any County property. Off-premise signs near state highways are restricted by the Outdoor Advertising Act.
There is no separate garage-sale-sign ordinance specific to unincorporated Tulare County. Instead, temporary signs - including garage, yard, and estate-sale signs and the directional arrows that point to them - are treated as temporary signage under the County Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 352) and the County Ordinance Code. The clearest hard rule is County Code section 2-09-1005, which makes it unlawful for anyone other than an authorized County officer to fasten 'any card, banner, handbill, campaign sign, poster, sign, advertisement, or notice of any kind' to a lamppost, pole, hydrant, bridge, wall, tree, sidewalk, or any structure on County property; that prohibition covers the common practice of stapling garage-sale signs to utility poles and street-sign posts. Such signs can be removed under section 2-09-1025, with the person responsible liable for removal costs. Off-premise temporary signs placed along or near a state highway also fall under California's Outdoor Advertising Act and Caltrans rules, which restrict placement within the highway right-of-way. On the seller's own private property, a garage-sale sign is generally allowed subject to the zoning ordinance's size, placement, and duration limits for temporary signs; owners should confirm the specific temporary-sign standards for their zone with the Resource Management Agency. Best practice is to keep signs on private property with the owner's permission and to remove them promptly after the sale.
Stapling or affixing garage-sale or directional signs to utility poles, street-sign posts, trees, or other County property violates County Code section 2-09-1005, and the signs may be removed at the violator's expense (section 2-09-1025). Off-premise signs placed within a state-highway right-of-way violate the Outdoor Advertising Act and Caltrans rules.
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