Mount Pleasant, SC Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

305(B), adopted by the ordinance passed January 14, 2025, sets a 48-hour ceiling on keeping a disqualified vehicle anywhere on a property, indoors or outdoors. A vehicle is disqualified if it meets any one of four criteria: its damage is severe enough that repairs would cost more than the repaired vehicle is worth; it lacks a current motor vehicle license; it lacks a current inspection sticker; or it is simply inoperable. Because the standard reaches vehicles kept indoors as well as outdoors, storing a wrecked or unlicensed car inside a garage does not avoid the rule; only the 48-hour window matters.

The town carves out one exception: division (2) does not prohibit the restoration of licensed antique automobiles or other motor vehicles of special value, so a collector actively restoring a titled classic car is not automatically in violation merely because the car sits inoperable past 48 hours. 305(A)'s commercial-vehicle rule in the same Outdoor Storage of Vehicles provision, but the two divisions regulate different things: (A) caps how many and what kind of commercial vehicles may sit on residential land, while (B) targets any vehicle, on any zoned property, whose condition or paperwork has lapsed. Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Department code enforcement staff handle complaints and inspections under this section.