Greenwood County, SC Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Section 6-3-145 regulates parking and storage of unlicensed vehicles, construction equipment, trucks, and trailers across the county's residential districts. Subsection (1) allows no more than one automobile, truck, or trailer of any kind without current license plates to be parked on a residentially occupied lot under ten acres, and bars storing construction equipment there too, unless it sits inside a completely enclosed building. Subsection (2) bans parking or storing tractor-trailer rigs or cabs in residential districts entirely, except for vehicles with a loading capacity of one-half ton or less.

Subsection (3) limits a residential lot to one travel or camping trailer per family living on the premises, and specifically bars using that trailer as a dwelling, even temporarily, while it is parked or stored on the lot. Subsection (4) gave property owners a six-month grace period from the effective date of the ordinance to bring any noncompliant vehicles, equipment, or trailers into conformity or remove them, a deadline tied to Ordinance No. 13-86 as amended by Ordinance No. 21-90. Because the section sits in the zoning chapter, it is enforced the same way as any other zoning standard, through code enforcement and the county's general violation and penalty framework.