I think it was $10 for Florence residents...go to the City Clerks office...if you live outside city limits you don't have to purchase one. Florence only does it so they can limit you to 2 per year and keep people from having one every weekend.
Some people are "professional" yard salers. They have one every week. Leaving the junk set up in their yards. There was an ongoing one on Huntsville road, and one a few years ago on Bradshaw drive. The fee is to stop that kind of eyesore.
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