Columbia, South Carolina Municipal Code

Columbia SC ordinances

1000 published ordinances from the Code of Ordinances, City of Columbia, South Carolina (Supp. No. 35: codified through Ordinance No. 2025-090, enacted October 28, 2025). View the full index →

• 1-1 — Designation and citation of Code.
• 1-2 — Definitions and rules of construction.
• 1-3 — Provisions considered as continuation of existing ordinances.
• 1-4 — Jurisdiction of Code and ordinances.
• 1-5 — General penalty; continuing violations.
• 1-6 — Catchlines, history notes and references.
• 1-7 — Severability of parts of Code.
• 1-8 — Amendments to Code.
• 1-9 — Applicability of penalties to amended provisions.
• 1-10 — Supplementation of Code.
• 1-11 — Certain ordinances not affected by Code.
• 2-31 — Compensation.
• 2-32 — City manager.
• 2-33 — Appointment; qualification; residency requirements.
• 2-34 — City attorney.
• 2-35 — City clerk.
• 2-36 — Council interaction with employees.
• 2-51 — Meetings; time and place of regular meetings; special meetings; meetings to be open to pub
• 2-52 — Executive sessions.
• 2-53 — Meeting agenda.

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Starting a business

Who needs a city business license or tax registration, how the fee is figured and when it renews, summarized from and linked to the code: business license rules in Columbia →

Renting on Airbnb

Licenses, unit limits, taxes and fines for short-term rentals, summarized from and linked to the code: short-term rental rules in Columbia →

Related resources

Form a South Carolina LLC — verified state fees & statute →

Source & provenance

Published from the City's codifier, Municode (library.municode.com). Machine-readable campaign JSON · Canonical page