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Alcoholic drinking establishments primarily engaged in the retail sale of alcoholic drinks, such as, but not limited to night clubs, saloons, taverns, bottle club drinking places, cabarets, cocktail lounges, discotheque alcoholic beverages, tap room drinking places and alcoholic beverage bar drinking places primarily providing services such as beer, ale, wine, whiskey and liquor for on-premises consumption
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Day care centers |
Government buildings or facilities |
Internet sweepstakes establishments
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Offices for commercial, personal, medical, legal, and other services |
Public utility substations and facilities, public utility easements |
Retail trade involving the sale of merchandise on premises, including apparel, jewelry, eating establishments, health and beauty aids, arts and crafts, flowers and plants, and household needs, but excluding automobile dealers, manufactured home sales lots, and boat and trailer sales lots |
Services to individuals, including personal services, social services, health services, exercise and health studios and tanning salons, repair services for household items, photographic studios, laundries, and rental services for household items |
Sexually oriented business |
Bingo |
Adult gaming establishments such as video poker businesses where a patron is paid as a result of the scores he compiles on a machine or a machine of the non-payout type, in line pin game or video game with free play feature operated by a slot in which is deposited a coin or thing of value except machines of the non payout pin table type with levers of "flippers" operated by the player, by which the course of the balls can be altered or changed, are also classified as adult entertainment. |
Businesses with only five video poker or other such games or less for which customers can win money do not classify as an adult gaming establishment (B-3) unless they also have one of the other uses so classified. Businesses that have five or less machines would be classified as a (B-2) and are not allowed to have more than one business per lot. |
Adult gaming establishments shall not be located closer than 300 feet from any house of worship, day care center, public or elementary, middle, or secondary school, public or private kindergarten, a public playground or park; a public vocational or trade school or technical educational center, a public or private college or university, or other adult businesses. |
Signs, in accordance with the provisions of § 5-4-60-2 |
Temporary uses, in accordance with the provisions of § 5-4-60-3 |
(A) Permitted uses within a B-3 District is amended by adding body piercing and tattooing as a permitted use within this section of the City of Dillon Code of Ordinances and all existing permitted uses within this section of the City of Dillon Code of Ordinances shall remain in full force and effect as though they were copied herein fully.
(1) No body piercing and/or tattooing business shall be located within (1,000) one thousand feet of:
(a) A public or private kindergarten, elementary school, intermediate school, middle school, high school, college, or care facility;
(b) A public playground or park;
(c) A public or private vocational or trade school, or technical education center;
(d) A church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship;
(e) A Protective Residential District or a residential activity.
(2) No body piercing and/or tattooing business shall be located within (300) three hundred feet of:
(a) A facility that serves alcoholic beverages,
(b) Another body piercing and/or tattooing business.*
(3) Measurement: To determine the separation, the distance shall be measured by following the shortest route of pedestrian or vehicular traffic along the public thoroughfare from property line to property line.
(B) A person commits a misdemeanor if he operates or causes to be operated a body piercing and/or tattooing business outside a zoned designated (B-3) Limited Commercial and Adult Entertainment Zoning District.
(C) * Description of principal activities of body piercing and tattooing: any room, space, location, area, structure, or business, or any part of these places where body piercing or tattooing is practiced or where the business of body piercing or tattooing business is conducted, whether owned or managed by a person which is subject to the provisions of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amended, for performing body piercing and/or tattooing. All body piercing and/or tattooing businesses shall be located within a (B-3) Limited Commercial and Adult Entertainment Zoning District.
(E) Definitions.
ALCOHOLIC DRINKING PLACE means an establishment that is primarily devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises, deriving fifty percent (50%) of their gross revenue from the sale of alcohol and in which the serving of meals is only incidental to the consumption of such beverages.
INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES ESTABLISHMENT means an establishment where customers are primarily devoted to buy time online and play video “sweepstakes” games for cash prizes or purchase internet time that allows the user to receive points or credits that are then used to play, in many instances, casino-like computer games to potentially win more points redeemable for cash and/or where customers are primarily devoted to giving donation for a product or other thing of value (i.e., phone card, internet time), which credits the customer with free points or other measurable units that may be risked by the customer for an opportunity to win money.
MEALS means an assortment of various prepared foods which shall be available to guests on the licensed premises during normal mealtimes which occur when the licensed business establishment is open to the public. Sandwiches, boiled eggs, sausages and other snacks prepared off the licensed premises but sold thereon, shall not constitute a meal. The business must have a menu or a posted listing of available meals. Hot meals must be prepared at least once each day the business is open for business.
PRIMARILY means for the most part of a business activity engaged in by a business establishment.
RESTAURANT means an establishment that is primarily devoted to the serving of food and drinks for consumption by guests on the premises, deriving fifty percent (50%) of their gross revenue from the sale of food and drinks in which the serving of alcoholic drinks is only incidental to the consumption of such meals. The business must have a Class A restaurant license from the Department of Health and Environmental Control and must have a kitchen that is used solely for the preparation, serving and disposal of solid foods that make up meals to include seating for not less than forty (40) persons simultaneously at tables for the service of meals.
(Am. Ord. 04-13, passed 10-11-2004; Am. Ord. 11-16, passed 12-12-2011)
(A) Permit. A permit shall be secured for the establishment, major alteration, or moving of any sign two (2) square feet or more in area, except for temporary signs.
(B) Required Sign. Each principal building shall have posted on the front exterior the proper street address, with numerals a minimum of three (3) inches in height.
(C) Prohibited Signs. The following signs are prohibited within the B-3 District:
(1) Signs which imitate an official sign or signal or which contain the words stop, go slow, caution, danger, warning, or similar words or characters which might mislead or confuse the driver of a vehicle.
(2) Signs which are of a size, location, movement, content, coloring, or manner of illumination which may be confused with or construed to be a traffic control device or which hide from view any traffic or street sign or signal or which obstruct the view in any direction at a street or road intersection.
(3) All parts of signs which advertise an activity, business, product, or service no longer produced or conducted on the premises upon which the sign is located; except where a succeeding owner or lessee agrees to maintain the signs as provided in this ordinance.
(4) Signs which are pasted or attached to utility poles, trees, fences, or other signs.
(5) Signs which swing or otherwise noticeably move as a result of wind pressure because of the manner of suspension or attachment, except for flags, banners and pennants.
(6) Signs which display intermittent or flashing illumination.
(7) Signs which extend above the roof of any building.
(8) Prohibited Signs on Rights-of-way. Political signs, advertising signs, mobile signs, temporary signs, banners or pennants located in the public rights-of-way or private easements of streets and roads within the corporate limits of Dillon are prohibited unless approval to erect or construct such signs has been permitted by the South Carolina Department of Transportation and/or City of Dillon.
(9) Violation.
(a) Any person violating any provision of § 5-4-60-2(C)(8) by erecting, constructing or maintaining political signs, advertising signs, mobile signs, temporary signs, banners or pennants in the public rights-of-way or private easements of streets and roads within the corporate limits of Dillon without obtaining approval from the South Carolina Department of Transportation and/or City of Dillon shall be deemed guilty of an offense and shall be subject to a fine of up to two hundred dollars ($200) or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days upon conviction. Each day of violation shall be considered a separate offense. Punishment for violation shall be considered a separate offense.
(b) In addition to the fine hereinabove provided, the city may remove the prohibited signs, banners or pennants from the public rights-of-way or private easements of streets and roads within the city limits. Removal of prohibited signs, banners or pennants by the city shall not relieve the offender from being subject to a misdemeanor for violation of this ordinance.
(D) Illumination. Signs illuminated by direct lighting shall have such lighting shielded so that no direct light will shine on abutting properties or in the normal line of vision of the public using the streets or sidewalks.
(E) Maintenance. The person, firm, or corporation owning or using the sign shall be responsible for maintaining the sign in a structurally sound condition and for keeping the area surrounding the base of the sign clear of trash and debris.
(F) Removal of On-Premises Signs. The removal of any on-premises sign erected or maintained in violation of this ordinance or any on-premises sign which has been abandoned, destroyed, or substantially damaged, shall be ordered by the Code Enforcement Director. Ten (10) days notice in writing shall be given to the owner of such sign, or of the building or premises on which such sign is located, to remove the sign or bring it into compliance with this ordinance. Upon failure to remove the sign, the City of Dillon may remove the sign and any costs of removal incurred by the city may be collected in a manner prescribed by law.
(G) Temporary Signs. All temporary signs shall be removed within two (2) weeks following completion of the event or project for which the sign was displayed, the sale of property for which the sign was posted, or the election for which political signs were erected.
(G) Temporary Signs. All temporary signs shall be removed within two (2) weeks following completion of the event or project for which the sign was displayed, the sale of property for which the sign was posted, or the election for which political signs were erected.
(H) Signs Permitted in the B-3 District.
(1) Applicable signs permitted in residential districts.
(2) Business signs mounted flat against the front surface of the building wall and not projecting above the roof of the building. The total area of all signs identifying each establishment shall not exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the front surface of the building facing either a public pedestrian or vehicular way, or a parking lot.
(3) Business signs mounted flat against the rear and/or side surface of the building wall and not projecting above the roof of the building. The total area of all signs identifying each establishment shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the rear and side surface of the building facing either a public pedestrian or vehicular way or a parking lot.
(4) Business signs, free standing, for each business on the premises under separate management, providing that such signs shall:
(a) Be limited to one (1) per one hundred (100) feet of lot frontage along a major street.
(b) Meet the minimum setback requirements for the district in which they are located.
(c) Be not higher than thirty (30) feet nor lower than ten (10) feet above the finished grade of the adjacent street or pavement.
(d) Not exceed one hundred (100) square feet in total area.
(5) Business signs, for shopping centers, in accordance with the standards of the City of Dillon land development.
(6) Business signs suspended under canopies, providing that such signs shall:
(a) Be limited to one (1) per building entrance.
(b) Be a minimum of nine (9) feet above the sidewalk surface.
(c) Not to exceed three (3) square feet in total area.
(7) One (1) unlighted temporary real estate sign on a property offered for sale or rent, not exceeding eight (8) square feet.
(8) Temporary signs of contractors, architects, engineers, and artisans during construction, providing such signs are located on the premises and shall be removed promptly after completion of the work.
(9) Temporary signs pertaining to special events or political campaigns, provided they are located on the premises and do not exceed two (2) square feet.
(10) Signs incident to legal process and necessary for public safety and welfare.
(Am. Ord. 06-12, passed 6-12-2006; Am. Ord. 07-18, passed 0-10-2007; Am. Ord. 10-12, passed 11-8-2010)
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