Aiken County, SC Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Aiken County Code Section 14-2, Regulation of parking generally, is the county's core on-street parking ordinance for areas under county police jurisdiction. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful to stop, stand, or park a vehicle in violation of a posted sign anywhere a sign notifies drivers that parking, stopping, or standing is prohibited, limited, or restricted, whether on a street or in any other area subject to the county's police jurisdiction. The ordinance does not itself list separate categories like blocking a driveway or parking against the flow of traffic; instead the county relies on sign-based designations to define what is restricted on any given street, so a specific block's rules are set by whatever the posted sign there actually says.

Subsection (b) sets the penalty: a misdemeanor conviction carries a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or up to ten days imprisonment, though the section defers to any lesser penalty the state sets by statute for a comparable offense. Enforcement is not limited to sworn deputies. Under Section 14-3, the sheriff may appoint unpaid volunteer enforcement officers with authority limited to issuing parking tickets within the magistrate's court's jurisdiction; they cannot make custodial arrests, and the sheriff sets their training and supervision policies and can revoke their authority at any time. Ordinance 92-2-6, adopted February 18, 1992, enacted Section 14-2, and Ordinance 94-4-19, adopted April 5, 1994, added the volunteer officer program at Section 14-3.