York County, SC Noise from Specific Sources: Delivery Truck Noise (2026)

C. 016(B)(9), lists 'loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading of any vehicle or the opening and destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers' as one of eighteen specific acts the county treats as loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noise in the unincorporated area. 016(A), which separately bars any 'unreasonably loud, disturbing or unnecessary noise' that annoys, disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of others countywide. Because delivery and freight noise is named specifically, a code officer does not need a decibel reading to cite a driver or business for banging pallets, dropping crates, or ripping open cardboard near a residential lot; the enumerated act is itself the violation.

017: a public officer who receives a complaint and confirms a violation must give the offender or property owner a chance to immediately abate the noise without penalty, but a repeat or continuing violation within 90 days becomes a misdemeanor. The county weighs the noise's level, duration, time of day, and the character of the surrounding area, along with any prior abatement requests, in deciding whether a violation occurred. 016(B)(3), which separately restricts noisy construction equipment during those hours on residential blocks.