Georgetown County, SC Building Safety: Building Inspections (2026)

Sec. 7-12(a) puts inspections in the hands of authorized building department personnel, who check work at stages the department sets by written policy and prints on the permit card. Georgetown County will not send an inspector unless that permit card is posted at the site and an approved, stamped set of plans is on hand to review; if the site is not ready, the gate is locked, or the paperwork is missing, the county charges a $100.00 re-inspection fee under Sec. 7-12(a) before it will schedule another visit.

For routine requests, Sec. 7-12(b) lets contractors and homeowners ask for a next-work-day inspection, but the county only takes those requests between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and does not process them on official county holidays. Once the inspector has been out, Sec. 7-12(c) requires the building department to give the permit holder written notice of whether the work passed or failed, spelling out every required correction and the code section behind it. That same subsection bars covering or concealing electrical wiring until it has been inspected and approved, so a contractor who closes up walls before the electrical sign-off risks having to reopen them.

Georgetown County's Building Department runs this inspection schedule for all unincorporated areas of the county, separate from the cities of Georgetown and Andrews and the Town of Pawleys Island, each of which enforces its own building code.