Florence County, SC Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)

Section 21-2 of the Florence County Code enumerates the specific acts the county treats as nuisances, and in practice these are the complaints unincorporated-area residents file most often against a neighboring property: permitting the premises to become unsanitary or a fire menace by letting offensive matter accumulate; allowing inoperable or unlicensed vehicles, junk, old lumber, tires or similar debris to accumulate and remain visible; and maintaining a building or premises in an unsafe condition that is detrimental to property of others in the neighborhood and causes a substantial diminution in the value of other property in the neighborhood, referencing the unsafe-structure standards at § 21-86.

The list is expressly non-exclusive: acts of nuisance may include but are not expressly restricted to those three categories. To report a violation, § 21-3(a) lets the owner or occupant of any real property within 1,500 feet of the property at issue file a written complaint on a county-developed form at the Florence County Planning and Building Inspection Office; the code official can also act on an anonymous complaint if it is clearly evident from a public road and substantial rather than merely technical. Once a complaint is confirmed, § 21-4 requires the code official to serve written notice describing the violation and a correction deadline, and to offer an informal conference aimed at a signed abatement agreement before any court action follows.