Glynn County, GA Code Violation Reporting: How to Report (2026)

Section 2-5-203(a) of the Glynn County Nuisance Abatement Ordinance names three paths for opening an investigation into a dwelling, building, structure or property believed unfit for habitation, out of compliance with applicable codes, tied to drug crime, unsanitary or unsafe, or overgrown with undesirable vegetation: a request from any public authority, a request from at least five residents of Glynn County, or the Chief Building Official acting on his or her own information. Once a qualifying request is filed with the public officer, defined in § 2-5-201 as the Glynn County Planning and Zoning Director or a designee, the public officer must make an investigation or inspection of the specific property named.

The public officer, any person the county authorizes to enforce the ordinance, and any sworn police officer can enter the property and structure at reasonable times to inspect conditions, though entries must be made to cause the least possible inconvenience to anyone in possession. There is no dedicated online portal named in the ordinance itself; the filing point is the request to the public officer described above, which the Community Development department administers day to day. A resident-filed request is the route available to a private citizen who is not the Chief Building Official or a public authority, and it requires at least five residents joining the request rather than one person acting alone.