Marietta, GA Animal Ordinances: Wildlife Feeding (2026)

Section 10-10-080 of the Marietta Code of Ordinances, enacted by Ordinance No. 5937 in December 1998, makes it unlawful for any person to feed wildlife or animals on public property within the central business district of the City of Marietta, with the district's boundaries defined and on file with the city clerk's office rather than spelled out in the text itself. The provision sits right after Section 10-10-070, which separately created a 'pigeon zone' covering the same central business district and gives the city code enforcement official power to act against property owners whose buildings, signs, or structures attract animal litter, following written notice and a hearing process with rights of appeal to city council.

Read together, the two sections show the city's downtown pigeon and stray-animal problem drove both the feeding ban and the litter-abatement process: the feeding ban stops people from drawing wildlife to public spaces like the Marietta Square, while Section 10-10-070 lets the city go after the buildings that end up fouled as a result. Because the ban is limited to public property in the defined central business district, feeding birds or strays on private property, or in public areas outside downtown, falls outside this particular section.