Charleston, S.C., City Code § 29-261 Limits on size; additional tour guides.
Sec. 29-261. - Limits on size; additional tour guides.
(a) All walking tours for hire conducted from the public right-of-way shall consist of no more than twenty (20) persons per group, excluding the tour guide. Any walking tour for hire conducted from the public right-of-way consisting of more than twenty (20) people shall be divided into groups not to exceed twenty (20) and each group shall be accompanied by a tour guide. This section shall not apply to school groups that exceed twenty (20) people. School groups exceeding twenty (20) people may be accompanied by either a tour guide or a chaperone for every group of twenty (20) people, or fraction thereof, that exceeds an initial twenty (20) people to manage the school groups while walking on the public rights-of-way to avoid impeding vehicular or pedestrian traffic.
(b) Further, the provisions of this section shall not apply to tours conducted off the public right-of-way when use of the public right-of-way is only incidental to conducting a tour. Use of the public right-of-way is incidental to conducting a tour when the public right-of-way is used for transportation purposes only and no tours are being conducting from the right-of-way. Further, this section shall not apply to tours conducted within city buildings or within city parks.
(c) Tour groups of any size shall not obstruct or otherwise inhibit the free, safe and efficient flow of vehicular or pedestrian traffic on any public right-of-way or public property including into and out of private property adjacent to any public right-of-way.
(Ord. No. 1998-174, § 28, 9-22-98; Ord. No. 2016-054, § 9, 4-26-16; Ord. No. 2019-027, §§ 1, 2, 4-9-2019; Ord. No. 2023-063, § 17, 3-28-23)