Georgetown County, SC Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Under Georgetown County Code Sec. 13.8-18, the county clerk to council keeps and processes applications from property owners who already have a filed Discharge of Fireworks Prohibited Agreement with the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office and want to extend that no-fireworks zone onto adjoining public property. The clerk must advertise the required public hearing at least 15 days before county council considers the application and must forward a copy to the Sheriff's Office after receiving it. A complete application, along with its public hearing, must be placed on a regular council meeting agenda as a report to council within 45 days of the clerk's receipt, and the clerk cannot be required to advertise or docket an incomplete application.

On the printed application form, the owner, lessee, or managing authority circles which public property the extension should reach: the low-water mark of any adjoining ocean or tidal water, the center line of an abutting street or thoroughfare, or adjoining public land, capped at 500 feet from the subject property. After the public hearing and a council vote, the county attorney has five days to put the decision in writing, and the clerk has another five days to have the council chairman sign it and send it, along with the original application, to the applicant.

If council grants the extension, the applicant must file the signed decision and application with the Sheriff and post two signs or placards, each at least 12 inches by 12 inches, marking the extended zone. No filing fee or fine amount appears in this procedural section itself; enforcement of the underlying no-fireworks agreement runs through the Sheriff's Office.