Oconee County, SC Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Section 26-7(f) is the county's road-safety subsection: it bars parking or placing material within three feet of the driving surface, prohibits any sign that restricts driver visibility or sight lines, and then addresses temporary signage directly. Subsection (f)(4) requires an encroachment permit from the county road department for any sign, other than those regulated by state or federal law, that stays in place on a county road for more than seven days, and expressly gives political signs as the example of a sign category the county is deferring on.

That means a candidate or campaign sign placed in a county right-of-way is not funneled into the road department's encroachment permit process the way a contractor's or business sign left up past a week would be, because state and federal election law already governs political signage. The rule still sits inside the broader road-safety framework of section 26-7(f): a political sign cannot obstruct a driver's sight line or sit within three feet of the driving surface, since those visibility and clearance rules in subsections (f)(1) through (f)(3) are not tied to the seven-day permit trigger and apply to any sign or material placed near a county road.