Is this going to be a trend? Yard Sale Regulation

[Lost&Found]

Heard a local news report today about the town board of Babylon NY voting this week to regulate YS to 2 per year (April to Sept) per household and you need a permit.

Babylon Town officials consider laws to regulate yard sales | Newsday

 

[Rustynailsandscrews]

What a joke. Working people are exiting NY State because of the high taxes and they are going to make you get a yard sale permit so they can screw you one last time before you leave the state. TOO MUCH STUPIDITY IN NY. !!!!

 

[Beans]

The town I live in allows only 2 per year and charges $10 for the permit. Some have a garage sale every other week. So it is not really enforced. They will fine you if you are caught but they don't go looking. The reason for the permit is the city needs their tax money and since you don't have to keep track of how much you sold, it easier to charge 10 bucks (tax).

 

[Loco-Digger]

The next town over has regulations, but where I live they don't. They have an annual village wide yard sale. If you register with them, they post signs from the main roads to your house and give out maps to visitors of all registered sales. .

 

[Chizzy]

A neighboring borough doesn't limit the number of yard sales, but they do charge $5.00 per sale for permits........our city has not initiated any such ordinances..........yet.

 

[Paleo_joe]

A friend lives in an area where there are semi-permanent "yard" sales going on every weekend, all along the road. Same people, same yard, same junk. Looks awful and has really driven the neighborhood down. He hates it. i am glad to live where that kind of stuff is kept in check.

 

[diggummup]

This is what happens when you have a few bad apples that have yard sales each and every week. I don't blame neighbors for complaining. I would too. There have always been regulations here. They just don't enforce them too often. Every now and then you will see code enforcement removing signs at intersections but that's about it. Around here they even used to require a permit that cost $10, this was stopped back in '93. Most places already have regulations in place. This is nothing new.

 

[NJ Marty]

Im sure this is to squash the permanent sales, they are an eye sore with the signs that they use. Basically just covered up old political signs with the metal stakes with their info, all battered and tattered from months of every weekend out in the elements. There is one ongoing sale where the guy uses 5gal buckets filled with sand with 8ft stakes in them with the info. Holy crap I want kick them over its total BS, if it was in my town I would flip them over every chance I got.
My town passed a law that if you don't take down your sign after the sale they will take it go to your home and you get a $100 fine. I doubt it has been enforced once.

 

[gravityrules]

Same rules for us, 2 times a year and a $5 permit is required, which you are supposed to display. Regulations about where signs can be placed too, nothing allowed in city owned right of way or on poles, etc.
Enforcement doesn't seem to be as strict now as it was several years ago.
I think the twice a year limitation comes from an interpretation of IRS rules, you will find that applied to a number of other events as well.

Some areas with HOAs do not allow any garage sales, or only have a specific day with limited hours when an area wide sale is promoted.

 

[Butter Hat]

What a joke. Working people are exiting NY State because of the high taxes and they are going to make you get a yard sale permit so they can screw you one last time before you leave the state. TOO MUCH STUPIDITY IN NY. !!!!

Caesar wants to regulate the very air you breathe.

 

[Keppy]

We also have the ones here that put up a yard sale in the spring and it is still there in the fall ..... On the week days they cover it with plastic then open up for the week end... It makes the area look cheap & crappy...

 

[Tallone]

...the city needs their tax money...

Perhaps a more accurate phrase would be: ...the city wants your money...

 

[NJcigarman]

My town has had it for over 20 years. Two per year and must go to the Borough Hall to get a permit. At the same time they made trash pickers buy a permit!!! Guys riding around on trash night can't touch your trash unless they have the permit.