Pageland, SC Business Licensing & Operations: Adult Entertainment (2026)

Town Code Sec. 10-107 declares sexually-oriented businesses potentially detrimental to residential neighborhoods and sensitive land uses and prohibits them town-wide except as Special Exceptions in the General Commercial District, granted only on application to the Planning Commission and conformance with the conditions in the article. Sec. 10-112 then sets the spacing standard: such businesses must be located more than 1,000 feet from a church, a public or private elementary or secondary school or college/university, a public or private nursery school or day care center, a public park, any residential zoning district, any residential subdivision, or any other existing sexually-oriented business.

Distance is measured in a straight line, ignoring intervening structures or rights-of-way, from the nearest point of the sexually-oriented business's building to the nearest property line of the sensitive use, except that distances between two sexually-oriented businesses run closest-exterior-wall to closest-exterior-wall. Sec. 10-116 requires a town-issued permit separate from any other license, with an application showing a scaled floor plan, a vicinity map plotting distances to sensitive uses, and the signatures of everyone holding at least a 10 percent ownership stake; the health, fire, and building departments must inspect the premises within 21 days of the application.

Permits run January 1 to December 31 and can be suspended up to 30 days or revoked for a year for violations such as excessive on-site alcohol use, refusing inspection, knowingly permitting gambling, or violating nudity/indecency law.