Unincorporated York County requires no rental registration, but its cities do. Rock Hill mandates that every single-family and multi-family rental register with the city and pass inspection before occupancy. No statewide South Carolina registration statute exists.
There is no statewide rental-registration law in South Carolina and no York County program for the unincorporated area — a landlord there owes the county no rental permit, filing, or fee. Municipalities run their own programs. Rock Hill, home to Winthrop University, requires all single-family and multi-family rentals inside city limits to register and be inspected before occupancy, a rule aimed partly at student-rental neighborhoods. Fort Mill, Tega Cay, Clover, and York set their own business-license and rental rules within their limits. Landlords everywhere still answer to state law — the security-deposit and habitability duties of the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act and the eviction process in §27-40-710.
In Rock Hill, renting an unregistered or uninspected unit violates the city code and draws municipal fines and a bar on occupancy. Unincorporated county rentals carry no registration penalty because no requirement applies.
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