Jackson County, MS Ordinances (2026)

Jackson County enforces FEMA floodplain standards with post-Katrina elevation requirements. Most of southern Jackson County lies in Special Flood Hazard Areas (V, AE, A zones). Base…

Jackson County requires erosion and sediment control measures on every subdivision, site plan and building permit in the unincorporated county. No final plat, construction plan, site…

Jackson County regulates stormwater pollution countywide under Article 11 of its Zoning Ordinance. Commercial and industrial operators must install Best Management Practices at their…

In Jackson County's unincorporated Flood Plain (F) District, no building or use is allowed without a special use permit from the Board of Supervisors. Any structure must be…

Jackson County closes county-owned parks and public facilities at their posted business hours; entering or loitering after hours without permission or legitimate business is prohibited.

Unincorporated Jackson County property owners cannot let household appliances, junk vehicles, tires, scrap building material or dilapidated structures pile up in the open. Section…

Jackson County bars parking or storing wrecked, dismantled or inoperable vehicles on residential land outside a fully enclosed building. The rule covers cars, trailers, boats and…

Every business, trade or industrial building in unincorporated Jackson County must provide off-street loading space sized to its use, with direct access to a public street or alley…

Jackson County bars boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, campers and motorized dwellings from sitting in a required front yard, and prohibits living or sleeping in them on any lot…

Jackson County's Zoning Ordinance sets a real construction standard for driveways, not just a suggestion. Every residential driveway must be paved with gravel at minimum, commercial…

Jackson County requires weeds and other growth to be cut whenever a county official or health officer decides an uncut lot has become a menace to public health or safety, the same…

Jackson County bars farm animals and fowl from most residential zoning districts unless the parcel is at least one acre, a limit written into every residential district from R-1A…

Jackson County's Zoning Ordinance does not cap pets by a flat household number; instead it defines a kennel as any establishment housing, grooming, breeding, boarding or training more…

Jackson County's A-1 General Agricultural District shields farm operations from urbanization pressure until rezoning is warranted, and the county cannot charge a permit fee for pole…

Pawn shops in unincorporated Jackson County are confined to the C-2 Community Commercial District under Table 5-3.12 of the Zoning Ordinance. A pawnbroker must locate on a C-2 parcel…

Tattoo and body piercing establishments are zoned into Jackson County's C-2 Community Commercial District under Table 5-3.12. An operator needs a C-2-zoned parcel and a zoning…

Jackson County allows massage therapy businesses only in the C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District and any district that mirrors C-1 permitted uses. Table 5-3.11 of the Zoning Ordinance…

Unincorporated Jackson County bans selling or consuming alcohol, beer or light wine in any commercial venue that features nude or sexually oriented performances, straddle dances, or…

Mobile food vendors are a permitted use in Jackson County's commercial and industrial districts, but Section 6.13.1 of the Zoning Ordinance layers on operating rules: written owner…

Mobile food vendors operating in unincorporated Jackson County need a permit backed by the property owner's written permission, and units drawing outside power or water must pass…

Jackson County bars mobile food vendors from locking units to trees, garbage cans or street furniture, from blocking traffic visibility or signals, and from parking within 10 feet of a…

Jackson County caps lot coverage at 30% of the lot for main and accessory buildings across its agricultural and single-family residential districts, rising to 75% in the C-2 Community…

In the R-1 Single-Family Residential district, Jackson County caps a main structure at 35 feet above the designated Base Flood Elevation, or 45 feet total height measured from the…

In Jackson County's R-1 Single-Family Residential district, the zoning ordinance sets a 35-foot front setback, 10-foot interior side setbacks, a 15-foot side setback on corner lots…

Signs on glass doors or windows in unincorporated Jackson County are capped at six square feet if they state the business name, nature, location or hours. Temporary poster signs behind…

Jackson County allows a home occupation in any zoning district where residential use is allowed, but caps it at 25% of the home's gross floor area or 500 square feet, whichever is…

A home occupation in unincorporated Jackson County can't generate more traffic than a normal residential neighborhood would see, and the Planning Director or Zoning Administrator…

Jackson County's Zoning Ordinance treats in-home child care as a regulated land use, not an automatic home business. A Family Child Care Home caring for five or fewer children and a…

A shed or other accessory building in unincorporated Jackson County can't sit in the required front yard, must meet its own setback once placed in a side or rear yard, and can't be…

Jackson County's Zoning Ordinance lets property owners build a garage apartment or guest house, but only as an accessory building, never as the main residence. Section 4.02.06 blocks…

Anyone building, erecting, moving a structure, or placing a manufactured or modular home in unincorporated Jackson County must get a permit from the Board of Supervisors before work…

In Jackson County's residential districts, a solid fence, wall or hedge in front of the front building line can't top 36 inches, an open mesh fence there tops out at 48 inches, and any…

Jackson County restricts medical cannabis dispensaries to commercial zoning districts in the unincorporated county. Dispensaries must keep 1,500 feet from each other, stay 1,000 feet…

Jackson County limits garage sales to six days within any 12-month period and bans running one anywhere except a single-family residence, treating anything more frequent as an illegal…

Jackson County requires garbage cans, dumpsters and recycle bins over 40 gallons at multifamily, manufactured home park, commercial, industrial and public-use sites to be enclosed on…

Dumping cans, bottles, glass, paper or boxes on Jackson County public property is a littering violation punishable under state litter-law fines.

In unincorporated Jackson County, private streets inside a Planned Unit Development must be owned and maintained by a mandatory Homeowners Association under Subdivision Regulations…

Jackson County treats mailboxes and other structures, objects or vegetation that obstruct the county right-of-way or block sight distance as unlawful encroachments, giving owners as…

Possessing or drinking alcohol on Jackson County public property while trespassing or loitering there is unlawful, with an exception for scheduled, approved functions.