Sign Regulations in South Carolina (2026)

South Carolina Code Section 57-25-10 makes it unlawful to place any sign, including a campaign or political sign…

Since January 1, 1996, City Code § 19-441 has made it unlawful to place a sign promoting a political candidate or party…

Chapter 96 of the Town Code makes it unlawful to place a sign promoting a political candidate or party within any…

Beaufort County lets freestanding political signs go up on private property anytime during an election year, but…

Small temporary political signs are allowed on private property in unincorporated Charleston County without a permit. A…

Columbia limits yard signs, the category that covers political and campaign signage, to six per lot with a combined…

Greenville County's sign ordinance is content-neutral, so political signs are handled as on-premises yard signs. No…

Horry County treats yard signs (including political signs) as personal expression signs. There is no limit on how many…

Political signs are allowed without a permit in every zoning district in unincorporated Orangeburg County, but Section…

Political signs in unincorporated Richland County may not stand in a public road right-of-way or be attached to trees…

Political yard signs are allowed on private property. Under the Zoning Ordinance, a political sign may not exceed six…

Spartanburg County's Performance Zoning Ordinance allows political campaign signs on private property beginning 60 days…

In unincorporated Sumter County, anyone who places a campaign sign, poster, or other item of campaign advertising must…

South Carolina makes it unlawful to display, place, or affix any sign, political campaign signs included, within a road…

Unincorporated Florence County lets political signs up to 32 square feet stay up for an unlimited display period on…

Rock Hill exempts political, ideological, religious, social or governmental message signs from sign permitting…

In unincorporated Greenwood County, the temporary and portable sign permit rules other businesses must follow…

Oconee County requires an encroachment permit from the county road department for any sign left in a county road…

Aiken County bans signs in the public right-of-way except a short list of exceptions, and yard-sale directional signs…

Temporary signs such as garage-sale and special-event signs are allowed in unincorporated Charleston County under ZLDR…

Columbia's city code allows only one non-illuminated garage-sale sign, capped at two square feet, and it must stay on…

Unincorporated Florence County allows small directional signs for yard sales, auctions and similar events in the public…

On your own property, a garage-sale sign is an on-premises yard sign (up to three, six square feet, five feet tall, no…

Garage-sale signs are temporary ground signs. Horry County allows one temporary ground sign per property (up to 6…

Lexington County classifies garage sale postings as Short-Term Information Signs under Zoning Ordinance Section…

Unincorporated Orangeburg County otherwise bans signs in the public right-of-way, but Section 5.4 of the Zoning…

Pageland Town Code § 10-35 limits a garage sale to two on-site signs of four square feet each, plus two off-site signs…

Yard sale signs in unincorporated Richland County must be on the sale premises only, never in a public right-of-way or…

Rock Hill, South Carolina limits garage sale signs to two on-property signs of four square feet each, plus two…

Garage-sale and special-event yard signs are allowed. Under the Zoning Ordinance a special event sign must be located…

Spartanburg County's sign ordinance has no dedicated garage-sale sign category. Yard-sale signs are treated as…

York County's zoning code regulates garage-sale signs on private property by size and placement, and no county permit…

Anderson County exempts open house, garage sale and yard sale signs from sign permits under Code of Ordinances §…

Lexington County treats holiday and seasonal advertising as a temporary sign category. Sec. 26.40(f) caps a seasonal…

Within Aiken County's Highway Corridor Overlay District, holiday lighting and outline neon are carved out of the…

Columbia's sign code exempts holiday and seasonal decorations from the permit and size standards that apply to signs…

Beaufort County flatly bans new off-premises signs and commercial billboards, and separately prohibits digital displays…

The Town of Mount Pleasant expressly prohibits electronic readerboard signs townwide under Town Code § 156.813(N), a…

North Charleston bans construction of any new billboard, digital or static, under its zoning code, with narrow…

Oconee County's sign ordinance bans any new billboard, electronic or static, unless it fits one of four narrow…

York County's sign ordinance flatly bars anyone from building a new billboard, digital or static, anywhere in the…

Charleston bans electronic and bulb-lit message signs citywide, with two narrow carve-outs: schools on at least eight…

Any Columbia sign with LED, low-voltage, or CRT changeable copy, digital billboards included, must run automatic…

Electronic message centers in unincorporated Greenville County cannot exceed 75 percent of a sign's allowable copy area…

Digital advertising signs in Lexington County can only change their static message once every 6 seconds and must sit at…

Orangeburg County's Zoning Ordinance treats digital signage as its own sign characteristic in Table 4: a 'Digital' sign…

Aiken County allows electronic message signs only if their content stays static, with no flashing, scrolling, or video…

Berkeley County lets LED and electronic message boards operate along its arterial road overlay corridors only if…

Darlington County allows digital and electronic changing-message billboards as off-site signs, including conversions of…

Unincorporated Florence County allows digital and electronic changing-message billboards, including converted…

Digital message boards in unincorporated Greenwood County cannot exceed 50 square feet and can never flash, scroll, or…

Digital and electronic signs in Horry County are capped at 1,000 nits of brightness at night, must auto-dim for ambient…

Rock Hill allows electronic message boards only on freestanding signs in non-residential districts, capped at 50% of…

Beaufort County's Community Development Code caps window signage at 25 percent of a shop front bay and 15 percent of…

Within Berkeley County's arterial road overlay corridors, window signage is folded into the wall-sign limit: combined…

Charleston limits window signage to 20 percent of any single window, whether permanent or temporary, and a temporary…

In unincorporated Florence County, a window sign needs no permit anywhere the zoning ordinance's Table VII marks it…

In unincorporated Greenville County, a window sign placed within 12 inches of the glass is exempt from a sign permit…

Horry County lets window signs go up without a permit, but caps them at eight total signs or pieces of information per…

Window signs on Lexington County businesses can't cover more than 10 percent of a building's gross transparent window…

In North Charleston's commercial and industrial districts, combined wall and window signage on any building facade…

York County caps how much of a storefront window can carry signage under § 155.935(I). In Agricultural/Open Space and…

Window signs in Dorchester County cannot cover more than 10 percent of a window's aggregate area, on top of whatever…

Window signs in the Town of Mount Pleasant count against a business's total attached sign area allowance under Town…

In the zoned areas of unincorporated Oconee County, window signs need no sign permit at all under Chapter 38, Appendix…

The Orangeburg County Zoning Ordinance treats window signs as a building sign type governed by Table 4 of Section 5.2…

Window signs in Rock Hill's commercial districts are exempt from a sign permit but capped at whichever is smaller: the…

Anderson County's sign article exempts window signs outright under Code of Ordinances § 24-243(9). Unlike real estate…

New off-premises and commercial billboard signs, the freeway-facing signage most visible along major corridors, are…

In unincorporated Cherokee County, South Carolina, Cherokee County Code § 17-1 designates the Peachoid Water Tank and…

Charleston allows off-premises billboards only inside the Heavy Industrial (HI) zoning district and only when the…

Billboards facing Columbia's interstates and freeway-class highways are confined to the Outdoor Advertising Sign…

Dorchester County limits billboards to the rights-of-way of expressways or within fifty feet of one, and only where…

Horry County bars off-premise signs and billboards within 1,000 feet of the centerlines of Carolina Bays Parkway…

Oconee County bans new billboards countywide except for a short list of carve-outs, and visibility from Interstate 85…

In unincorporated Orangeburg County, off-premises billboards are allowed only with a zoning permit in the CG (General…

Outdoor advertising signs along Darlington County's interstate corridors must sit at least 1,200 feet from any other…

In unincorporated Florence County, outdoor advertising structures facing Interstate 95 or Interstate 20 can reach 672…

Freestanding signs on property that directly abuts an interstate highway or its frontage road get the county's largest…

In unincorporated Greenwood County's C-2 general commercial district (and the matching I-1 and I-2 industrial…

Rock Hill allows larger freestanding signs facing Interstate 77 than on ordinary roads, up to 164 square feet and 24…