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South Carolina · Through 2025 Session of the General Assembly

S.C. Code Ann. § 57-25-20: Obscene or indecent billboards prohibited.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. Title 57 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES
  2. CHAPTER 25 Outdoor Advertising
  3. ARTICLE 1 General Provisions

(A) No billboard shall be erected or displayed containing obscene or indecent words, photographs, or depictions.

(B) Obscene words, photographs, or depictions must be defined and interpreted as provided in Section 16-15-305(B), (C), (D), and (E).

(C) A billboard is indecent when:

(1) taken as a whole, it describes, in a patently offensive way, as determined by contemporary community standards, sexual acts, excretory functions, or parts of the human body; and

(2) taken as a whole, it lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Collected 2026-09-02T07:55:24Z. Source file · JSON

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