Sign Regulations in Greenwood County, SC (2026)
3 rules for unincorporated Greenwood County, South Carolina.
Verified from official government sources
Political Signs
In unincorporated Greenwood County, the temporary and portable sign permit rules other businesses must follow, including a $20.00 permit fee, a 60-square-foot size cap, and building-official sign-off, do not apply to political signs. Greenwood County Code § 6-3-40(d)(4)e expressly carves political signs out of that permit scheme, pointing instead to Ordinance No. 24-90 (Title 9, Chapter 1) as the governing rule.
Greenwood County Exempts Political Signs From Permits
Few RestrictionsGreenwood County Code § 6-3-40(d)(4)e
(4)Temporary or portable signs for which a permit is required:a.One temporary or portable sign per tax parcel; provided however, in the case of a multiple business constituting a shopping or business center, one temporary or portable sign per 100 feet of road frontage is permitted. Such sign shall:1.Not exceed 60 square feet in area;2.Be located no closer than ten feet to the nearest property l...
Digital Billboards
Digital message boards in unincorporated Greenwood County cannot exceed 50 square feet and can never flash, scroll, or animate. In the C-2 general commercial district the copy can change as often as every 15 seconds; everywhere else, only religious, public, educational, or recreational uses on a lot of at least three acres qualify, and the copy can change no more than once a minute.
Greenwood County Digital Sign Board Rules
Some RestrictionsGreenwood County Code § 6-3-115(k)
(k)Automatic changeable copy boards. The message board may not exceed 50 square feet in surface area. ... No such automatic changeable copy board may be utilized as a portable or temporary sign unless a temporary sign permit has been issued.(1)Automatic changeable copy boards are allowed in the general commercial (C-2) zoning districts subject to the following conditions:a.The sign shall not fl...
Freeway-Facing Signs
In unincorporated Greenwood County's C-2 general commercial district (and the matching I-1 and I-2 industrial sections), billboards face hard numeric limits: a 300-square-foot display cap, a 12-foot display height and 25-foot display length ceiling, a 25-foot overall height limit, a five-foot property-line setback, and a 500-radial-foot spacing rule between permitted billboard sites, per Code § 6-3-41(d)(6).
Greenwood County Billboard Size and Setback Rules
Some RestrictionsGreenwood County Code § 6-3-41(d)(6)
(6)Billboards shall comply with the following conditions:a.No portion of a billboard may be located closer than 500 radial feet from any site for which a permit for the erection of a billboard has been issued by the county building official, so long as that permit is valid.b.The display area of a billboard shall not have a total surface area in excess of 300 square feet nor may the height of th...
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