Sampson County, NC Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Sampson County Code § 2-28-09.A addresses residential accessory structures countywide and states plainly that a manufactured home, RV, and other personal property including boats, vehicles, trailers, and buses may not be used as a detached residential accessory structure, a rule the same section repeats for non-residential lots at § 2-28-09.B. In practice this means a boat, camper or utility trailer parked on a residential lot is treated as personal property in storage, not as a building, so it cannot substitute for a garage or shed and gets no exemption from the three-structure cap the ordinance places on detached accessory buildings.

Section 2-28-08, Standalone Power Poles, recognizes that residents do keep RVs on their property: the county will issue a power pole as an accessory to a residentially occupied property strictly for the storage of a recreational vehicle, but the vehicle itself is not to be set up, occupied, or used in any shape, form, or capacity while connected. Read together with § 2-32-06.A's requirement that only personal-use vehicles be kept on R and MRD lots, the code treats a stored RV or boat as an ordinary personal vehicle rather than a structure. The Zoning Officer enforces these standards under Article 3 of the 2025 Revised Zoning Ordinance, effective February 21, 2025.