Rankin County, MS Ordinances (2026)

Rankin County caps home-business traffic to normal residential levels and requires all related parking off-street, outside any required yard.

Rankin County limits home-occupation signs to 2 square feet, mounted on the house no higher than 6 feet, and bans illumination.

In unincorporated Rankin County, Mississippi, a home occupation is allowed as an accessory use inside a dwelling, but it can't use more than 25% of the home's floor area or create…

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance only treats in-home care as a regulated 'Child Care Facility' once six or more unrelated children are involved, and then requires a discretionary…

Rankin County bans letting weeds or growth go uncut on any lot when a county or health official finds it a public health or safety hazard.

Inside Rankin County's Reservoir Community District, digital and animated billboards are banned outright: Section 3009.05 prohibits any sign with 'action or motion' or intermittent…

Rankin County's zoning code has no general light-trespass ordinance for homes or businesses: its only lighting-trespass rule applies to licensed medical cannabis establishments, which…

In Reservoir Community District subdivisions, a driveway can't cover more than half the front yard and must be paved with flagstone, brick, asphalt or concrete, per Art. XXX § 3007.01.

Rankin County bars large trucks, over 20-foot bed or over one ton, from parking on streets in platted residential subdivisions, except while working on-site.

Commercial trucks with more than six wheels can't be left parked overnight in platted Reservoir Community District subdivisions, except while working on the premises, per Art. XXX §…

Rankin County bans parking wrecked, dismantled, inoperable or unlicensed vehicles on residential lots visible from the street, or on public roads.

In platted subdivisions of unincorporated Rankin County's Reservoir Community District, RVs, boats and trailers can't sit in front or side yards unless parked on a paved surface, per…

Parking or storing a vehicle, RV, boat or trailer on a public street or right-of-way is banned in platted Reservoir Community District subdivisions, per Art. XXX § 3007.02.

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance requires site plan review to confirm garbage disposal facilities are enclosed and that refuse and service areas are properly provided before commercial…

Rankin County, Mississippi caps short-term rental occupancy at two people per bedroom plus two additional guests, with no exceptions allowed.

Rankin County, Mississippi charges a $1,000 initial short-term rental permit fee and a $500 annual renewal fee, due every January 1, plus escalating fines for violations.

Rankin County, Mississippi requires every short-term rental permit application to name a local representative and requires owners to keep a written record of renters.

Rankin County requires every short-term rental in the unincorporated county to carry an annual permit and business license, $1,000 to start, $500 a year to renew, plus a local contact…

Rankin County, Mississippi confines food trucks to industrial districts as a conditional use and charges a $2,500 startup permit fee plus $1,000 a year to renew.

In unincorporated Rankin County, Mississippi, food trucks and mobile vendors are allowed only in industrial-zoned districts, and only as a conditional use, not in agricultural…

Tattoo parlors need a Board of Supervisors conditional use permit in Rankin County's C-2 General Commercial district, and are banned outright in the Reservoir Community District around…

Pawn shops need a Board of Supervisors conditional use permit in Rankin County's C-2 General Commercial district, and are banned outright in the Reservoir Community District around…

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance lists massage spas as a use permitted by right in the C-2 General Commercial district, alongside nail and tanning services, with no conditional use…

Rankin County confines adult entertainment businesses to the C-4 Adult Entertainment Commercial District and requires them to sit at least 1,000 feet from homes, churches, schools and…

Rankin County bans development within the designated Floodway and requires any development in the surrounding Special Flood Hazard Area to sit at least 100 feet back from it.

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance requires a drainage plan showing storm drainage facilities and projected storm water flow rates whenever the county requires site plan review, covering…

In FEMA Flood Zone A within unincorporated Rankin County, Mississippi, new structures must have a finished floor 24 inches above the base flood elevation, and undeveloped BFE areas…

Rankin County caps building height at 35 feet across most zoning districts, including the R-1 Single-Family and A-1 Agricultural districts, under the Zoning Ordinance's per-district…

Rankin County sets minimum yard setbacks by zoning district: in the R-1 Single-Family district, 30 feet in front, 8 feet on the sides, and 25 feet in back, measured from the road…

In Reservoir Community District subdivisions, accessory buildings can't cover more than 10% of the rear yard, per Rankin County Zoning Ordinance Art. XXX § 3008.03.

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance bars every medical cannabis establishment, cultivation, processing, testing, or dispensary, from locating within 1,000 feet of the nearest occupied…

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance flatly bars medical cannabis dispensaries and other cannabis establishments from platted residential subdivisions, on top of requiring conditional-use…

Rankin County, Mississippi permits raising grazing livestock, horses, cattle, sheep, goats and mules, outright in the Agricultural General (A-1) district, but bans livestock in platted…

Rankin County, Mississippi bars keeping wild animals, defined to include monkeys, deer, wolves, bear and buffalo, on any lot in a platted residential subdivision.

Rankin County's A-1 Agricultural General District exists to preserve unincorporated land for farming: livestock breeding is a permitted-outright use, subdivisions are largely barred…

Rankin County, Mississippi requires site plan review for utility-scale solar projects, allowed by-right in I-2 and by conditional use in I-1, with 300-foot dwelling setbacks.

Rankin County's Zoning Ordinance sets no general fence-height cap, but on corner lots nothing may stand between 2.5 and 10 feet high inside a 25-foot sight triangle at the…

Rankin County allows one accessory dwelling unit per parcel as a conditional use in certain residential and agricultural zones, but it must be site-built, smaller than the main house…

Rankin County requires accessory buildings like sheds, garages, and workshops to sit behind the front plane of the main house and at least 10 feet from the side and rear property…

In Rankin County's Reservoir Community District, accessory buildings need HOA sign-off before the County will review a building permit, but only where an HOA actually governs the…