Richland County, SC HOA Rules: Board Procedures (2026)

Section 12-25 creates an Enhanced or backyard collection level for neighborhoods that want it, but before the county will approve it, the requesting Homeowners Association has to clear a defined procedural bar. First, the HOA must be duly organized and active, and the request has to come from the association itself, not individual homeowners. Second, the association has to document how the decision was made, either a certified true copy of a certified ballot mailed to every homeowner and tallied by a certified public accountant, or a certified true copy of meeting minutes recording a majority vote to request the service, and those minutes must be signed and attested by both the HOA President and Secretary.

Third, the association has to certify that it gave every homeowner at least ten days' notice of the meeting and must furnish a copy of that notice to the county. Fourth, the HOA has to define the geographic boundaries of the area covered by the request, including tax map sheet references (Sec. 12-25(b)(2)), and the completed request goes to the Director of Public Works for approval by the County Administrator (Sec. 12-25(b)(3)). Under Sec. 12-25(b)(4), the county will not grant backyard pickup to any subdivision unless its deed restrictions actually prohibit curbside pickup, so the HOA's covenants have to already bar putting bins at the curb.

None of this substitutes for South Carolina's general Homeowners Association governance rules; it is solely the documentation Richland County's Solid Waste Division requires to switch a neighborhood's collection method.