Mount Pleasant, SC Animal Ordinances: Pet Groomer Rules (2026)

Mount Pleasant's zoning code does not license groomers directly; it classifies them. 1681 defines "pet care service" as an establishment primarily engaged in providing services for household pets, such as grooming and training, and it draws a hard line on boarding: animals may be kept in indoor kennels before or after a service, but never for more than 24 hours. The same section separately defines "animal boarding facility or daycare" as a commercial establishment whose primary service is care and supervision of pets for any length of time; that use may offer grooming as an ancillary service, but it explicitly excludes pet care services and veterinary clinics from its own definition.

The two categories are mutually exclusive by design: a groomer that starts holding animals overnight, past the 24-hour window, has stopped operating as a pet care service and instead needs to be classified, and permitted, as a boarding facility or daycare, a use with its own review under the zoning code. The Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Department, which administers the Town of Mount Pleasant's zoning code, applies these definitions when it reviews a business's site plan or license application. 99: a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days, with a separate offense deemed committed for each day the violation continues.