No person shall sell or offer for sale any used or new clothing, furniture, appliances, bric-a-brac, or furnishings from a dwelling where the general public is invited to participate by signs or advertising, known as garage sales or backyard sales, without obtaining a permit therefor and conforming to the regulations which follow.
(Ord. 908 § 1, (1970))
To obtain such permit, applicant must file a written application therefor in the office of the license collector which shall set forth:
(1) 
Location of proposed sale;
(2) 
A reasonable inventory of the goods to be offered for sale;
(3) 
Date or dates during which the proposed sale is to be conducted;
(4) 
Names and addresses of all persons providing goods for the sale.
(Ord. 908 § 1, (1970); Ord. 1257 § 1, (1983))
(a) 
No permit shall be approved and no such sale shall be permitted for more than five days within any 15 day period and no more than one such permit shall be issued in any calendar year at any location.
(b) 
A sign, no larger than three square feet in area, may be displayed on the property announcing the sale during the permitted period, other prohibitions of this code notwithstanding.
(Ord. 908 § 1, (1970))
Personal property offered for sale shall not be displayed or stored in the front or side yards of any premises or on adjoining public streets or rights-of-way, provided that the property may be displayed on a permanently constructed driveway within the front or side yards.
(Ord. 1257 § 2, (1983))
All personal property sold at said sale shall have been owned, utilized and maintained for at least six months prior to the sale by person or persons listed on the application or by members of his or her family, on or in connection with, the residential premises which they occupy and shall not have been acquired or consigned for the purpose of resale.
(Ord. 1257 § 3, (1983))