Warner Robins, GA Sign Regulations: Garage Sale Signs (2026)

5 of the zoning ordinance does not set its own sign standards for yard and garage sales; instead it points sellers to chapter 6, article IX, Advertising and Signs, the same code that governs commercial signage citywide. Two provisions from that article apply directly to a cardboard arrow sign or poster advertising a Saturday sale. First, section 6-274(a)(7) bars posting any sign or advertisement on public property except official government signs, and section 6-274(a)(10) separately bans 'snipe signs,' defined in section 6-272 as any sign attached in any way to a utility pole, fence post, or similar object located on public property; that rules out the common practice of zip-tying directional signs to stop-sign posts or telephone poles along the route to a sale.

Second, section 6-282 requires written consent from a property owner before anyone tacks, nails, pastes or fastens a sign on private property that is not their own, which covers signs planted in a neighbor's yard or median strip without asking first. 1 through 6-280 are limited by section 6-281 to non-residentially zoned property, so a sign placed in a residential yard for the seller's own sale is not subject to those permit or size limits, only to the citywide prohibitions on public-property and snipe-sign placement and the consent requirement for using someone else's private property.

The enforcement officers defined in the article, the code enforcement officer or building inspector, handle complaints about signs left up on poles or rights-of-way after the two-day sale ends.