Beaufort County, SC Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Sec. 91-105 opens by declaring it unlawful to do any of the listed acts in a passive park unless the county administrator or a designee has specifically authorized it in writing. " The same subsection also prohibits removing, destroying, or harassing animals and plants except for county-authorized research, introducing plants or animals onto park land without authorization, and picking flowers, nuts, berries, or fruit or damaging plants and trees without authorization or an approved land-management activity. "Wildlife" is defined under Sec. 91-3 as all living creatures that are not human and wild by nature, endowed with sensation and voluntary motion, including quadrupeds, mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans, and mollusks, so the feeding ban reaches everything from deer and geese to raccoons and turtles.

Sec. 91-106(7) separately allows leashed dogs in most passive parks except where posted otherwise, but owners must clean up after their own pets, keeping the feeding ban distinct from ordinary pet management. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office holds enforcement authority over these Article II regulations under Sec. 91-4(7).