As part of the application process, you must notify the public of your application by running an advertisement in an approved newspaper. The SCDOR will notify SLED to post a sign at your business location.
SLED sign posting
- A SLED agent must post and remove a sign at the proposed place of business.
- This sign must remain posted for at least 15 days and may be removed only by the SLED agent.
- If the sign disappears before the SLED agent removes it, contact the SCDOR or SLED immediately.
Newspaper legal advertisement
- You are required to notify the public of your application by placing a legal advertisement in an SCDOR-approved newspaper for your area at least once a week for three consecutive weeks.
- See the Approved Newspapers for ABL Legal Advertisements list (
ABL-32).
- If you submit your legal advertisement in a non-approved newspaper, you will be required to re-run an advertisement in an approved newspaper.
- The legal advertisement must:
- State the type of license applied for and the exact location of the proposed business
- Be posted in the legal notices section of the approved newspaper, or an equivalent section if the newspaper has no legal notices section
- Be in large type and cover a space of one column wide and at least two inches deep
- You must submit an Affidavit of Publication from the newspaper running the legal advertisement.
- If the newspaper does not submit the Affidavit of Publication on your behalf, you can attach the affidavit as part of the application on
MyDORWAY.
- The affidavit must include a copy of the advertisement.
- The SCDOR will not issue your license until we receive an affidavit from an approved newspaper.
