Patricia Potter, president of Stray Solutions Animal Rescue, had to cancel the organization's yard sale or face a $600/day fine for violating Butler Township's zoning ordinance.

An animal rescue organization's plans for its third annual garage sale fundraiser this week in Butler Township were canceled after group members were told the sale would violate a township ordinance.

Stray Solutions Animal Rescue of Butler was planning to have a garage sale with donated items at the home of Linda Michaels, a board member, on South Duffy Road near the Whitestown Road intersection Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Township zoning officer Jesse Hines visited the home Thursday and presented Michaels with an enforcement letter advising her to end the sale.

The township's peddling or solicitation ordinance requires a permit for the sale of personal property not owned by the occupant or resident through a garage, yard or porch sale, Hines said.

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