Whitfield County, GA Code Violation Reporting: Common Violations (2026)

Section 5-21 states the duty plainly: every owner of a dwelling, building, structure or property in Whitfield County must construct and maintain it in conformance with all applicable codes in force in the county, or with ordinances that regulate and prohibit activities, and declares it a public nuisance to construct or maintain any dwelling, building, structure or property in violation of those codes or ordinances. That single sentence anchors the whole nuisance-dwelling division: § 5-22 designates the public officers, including Board of Commissioners members, the sheriff or a deputy, the tax assessor, the probate judge, the Whitfield County Engineer, the zoning administrator, any code enforcement officer, the county administrator, the public works director, and Environmental Health Office employees, who can act when a property falls out of compliance.

, or that endangers public health or safety through unsanitary or unsafe conditions, the three triggers the county lists in § 5-23 for opening a nuisance investigation. Because § 5-21 folds in 'all applicable codes in force within Whitfield County,' it reaches back to the adopted technical codes in § 5-9, meaning a property out of compliance with the building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, or property maintenance codes is a code violation under this duty-to-maintain section too.