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

116(B)(6) of the county's litter and solid waste ordinance bars any owner or responsible party from storing, parking or keeping an abandoned, junk or inoperable vehicle, including a motorboat, on property in the unincorporated county when its condition or lack of maintenance constitutes a nuisance or creates a breeding ground for vermin, mosquitoes, insects or noxious disease, or presents a physical danger to public safety. The rule sits inside the same dumping-and-litter section that governs abandoned swimming pools and general trash accumulation, treating a derelict vehicle as a public-health and nuisance problem rather than a purely aesthetic one.

A vehicle stored, parked or kept entirely inside a completely enclosed building, or in a structure attached to one, is expressly exempt from the prohibition regardless of its condition. 001 defines RESPONSIBLE PERSON broadly to include the owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of the property where the vehicle sits, so a landlord or property manager can be cited along with a vehicle's actual owner. 999(A) punishable by a fine up to $500 or up to 30 days in jail, with each day the vehicle remains a separate offense.

117, a junk-vehicle violation does not carry the mandatory litter-labor community service that applies to dumping offenses, only the general chapter fine and jail exposure.