No South Carolina statute bars parking a work truck or van at home, so the limits are local. Dorchester County zoning can restrict commercial vehicles in unincorporated residential districts, and HOA covenants and town codes are the other constraints.
South Carolina has no statewide residential commercial-parking ban, so the question turns on zoning. Because Dorchester County zones its unincorporated areas, residential districts can restrict parking a landscaper's truck, contractor van, box truck, or lettered work vehicle in residential yards. On agricultural and rural tracts near St. George and Reevesville the county rarely interferes. Recorded subdivision covenants across the Summerville and North Charleston growth belt commonly prohibit commercial vehicles in residential areas, and those HOA restrictions are enforceable. Summerville, St. George, and Ridgeville apply their own zoning codes that typically limit heavy or oversized commercial vehicles in residential districts.
In a residential zoning district the county can order a prohibited commercial vehicle removed and cite the owner. An HOA can fine or lien for a covenant breach, and towns add municipal penalties.
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