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Marenco
04-12-2012, 06:26 PM
Pennsylvania Town Seeks to Squash Scourge of Garage Sales

The small town of South Greensburg, PA is considering limiting the number of yard sales residents can conduct. Local TV station KTKA reports:

We decided, with the warmer weather coming up, we would sort of define what a garage sale was,” Borough Council President Clentin Martin said.
He has proposed an ordinance, which he says would prevent “people going to flea markets, buying junk that they collect in these flea markets bringing it home, then putting it into their garage, and then calling it a ‘garage sale.’"
Residents would be limited to two two-day garage sales a year, permits for which would cost $5.

Katherine Mangu-Ward’s written about garage sales coming under the purview of the feds after the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 went into effect.

Will lemonade stands be next?

All part of the long war on Main Street.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/12/small-pennsylvania-town-seeks-to-squash

Zippyjuan
04-12-2012, 07:49 PM
Free enterprise.

QuickZ06
04-12-2012, 09:36 PM
What a bunch of crap.

jdmyprez_deo_vindice
04-12-2012, 09:58 PM
My town pulled this shit last fall. A town councilman's Wife decided she did not like looking at stuff in people's yards so they passed a law which says you can only have 4 a year, you must have a town permit for those, you must submit to a town code enforcement officer inspecting the items being sold to make sue the town approves of your belongings, you can only adertise in the front yard with a sign no larger than 2x2, the yard sale itself has to be held in the backyard and you must start no earlier than 9 a.m. and be finished no later than 3.

LibertyEagle
04-12-2012, 10:02 PM
My town pulled this shit last fall. A town councilman's Wife decided she did not like looking at stuff in people's yards so they passed a law which says you can only have 4 a year, you must have a town permit for those, you must submit to a town code enforcement officer inspecting the items being sold to make sue the town approves of your belongings, you can only adertise in the front yard with a sign no larger than 2x2, the yard sale itself has to be held in the backyard and you must start no earlier than 9 a.m. and be finished no later than 3.

Isn't it time for you to run for town council?

Zippyjuan
04-13-2012, 12:29 PM
In some places they are trying to say that if you do have more than a certain amount (say you run one every weekend) that it is no longer a hobby sort of clean up the crap sale and more of an actual business and they want the proper licenses and taxes for that activity.

Brian4Liberty
04-13-2012, 12:41 PM
It's a zoning issue too. Many cities don't allow businesses that have customer traffic/visits in residential areas.

aGameOfThrones
04-13-2012, 01:44 PM
What a bunch of crap.

Hey! Not everything in a garage sale is Crap! :cool: (jk)

jkr
04-13-2012, 02:15 PM
sounds like we have too many useless "people" with nothing to do...let us GIVE them something to do

Barrex
04-13-2012, 02:32 PM
Pennsylvania Town Seeks to Squash Scourge of Garage Sales

The small town of South Greensburg, PA is considering limiting the number of yard sales residents can conduct. Local TV station KTKA reports:

We decided, with the warmer weather coming up, we would sort of define what a garage sale was,” Borough Council President Clentin Martin said.
He has proposed an ordinance, which he says would prevent “people going to flea markets, buying junk that they collect in these flea markets bringing it home, then putting it into their garage, and then calling it a ‘garage sale.’"
Residents would be limited to two two-day garage sales a year, permits for which would cost $5.

Katherine Mangu-Ward’s written about garage sales coming under the purview of the feds after the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 went into effect.

Will lemonade stands be next?

All part of the long war on Main Street.

http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/12/small-pennsylvania-town-seeks-to-squash

For all of you this is a MUST watch:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiJB8YuDBQ

Lemonade stands are already illegal.

oyarde
04-14-2012, 05:38 PM
Most state Constitutions should prevent the city states from restricting commerce .