http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/100804permits.php

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Bryan garage sales now require permits

Eagle Staff Report

The Bryan Police Department is warning residents that a permit is now required to legally hold a garage sale in the city.

Permits can be obtained for $3 from Building Services at the Municipal Building, said Officer Walt Melnyk, a spokesman for the police department.

Anyone found operating a garage sale without a permit may be cited and the sale shut down, Melnyk said. Random checks of garage sales will be conducted and officers will check for permits, he said.

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In other news...



http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1083326.html

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Smaller Crimes Less Likely Investigated
Lindsay Liepman

If your home is burglarized the chance of it being investigated is 50/50.

To the victim, the crime committed against them is the most important. But for Bryan Police, that's not always the case.

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[This message has been edited by BaitShack (edited 10/8/2004 7:57a).]

Just yet another way for the city to rip it's citizens off. It seems to me that this will cost more to enforce than will bring in as revenue.

The ordinance has been on the books for many years, and it's the same in most other cities- people just don't know about it and it' not enforced. You're also supposed to get a $3 permit for selling anything door-to-door. Again, no big deal.

It is a big deal, and they do enforce it, but only on Saturdays, I think.

My neighbor got a fine... I think it was $200 or $250, and a few weeks later they stopped at mine and checked my permit.

BS.

It's not a big deal unless you live in a neighborhood where one neighbor is having a garage sale every weekend clogging up the street.

All this ordinance is designed to do is keep honest citizens honest, which seems to be increasingly difficult these days.

I can remember 30 years ago my Mom having to get a permit to have a garage sale in my podunk little hometown.

Quit whining. It's only $3.00.

The idea is to keep someone from having a garage sale every weekend. You wouldn't want to live next to a weekend flea market would you.

I have lived a couple of doors down from a flea market. Not fun.

She probably had 15-20 garage sales a year. And on weekends that she didn't have a sale she was out at the garage sales in our neighborhood and other ones nearby buying up stuff for her next sale.

Burdizzo is correct. The law has been on the books for a long time (and many other cities have the same rules). It's to keep people from having sales every weekend and screwing up your neighborhood.

My parents' next door neighbor had sales EVERY weekend - it wasn't even their stuff. They'd find crap at flea markets and the like and would bring it back to re-sell in their damn yard. Someone finally reported them and it stopped.