Oconee County, SC Soliciting & Door-to-Door: No-Knock Registry (2026)

Oconee County Council adopted these limits through Ordinance No. 2025-13 on September 2, 2025, codified at chapter 20, article V of the county code. Section 20-52(c) flatly bars soliciting between sunset and sunrise anywhere in the unincorporated county, with no carve-out for holidays or fundraising drives. Section 20-52(e) backs up property owners directly: posting a sign reading 'No Trespassing,' 'No Peddlers,' 'No Solicitors' or similar words makes solicitation on that property unlawful, so a homeowner does not have to confront a canvasser in person to invoke the rule.

The same article also bars approaching moving vehicles or stepping into a roadway to solicit drivers under Sec. 20-52(d), and requires solicitors to stay clear of driveways, fire lanes, crosswalks and handicapped ramps under Sec. 20-52(f). None of this applies to a permitted special event under Sec. 20-52(a), so a sanctioned festival vendor or charity race is exempt from the hours ban. C. Code section 4-9-145, issue county uniform ordinance summonses for violations, which are heard by county magistrates under Sec. 20-37. A violator can also be cited by any other lawful means under Sec. 20-40, since the ordinance summons process supplements rather than replaces normal criminal enforcement.