Marietta, GA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Marietta's fire prevention code addresses open burning in Chapter 2-6, the same chapter that creates the fire marshal's office and enforces the fire prevention code citywide. 02(5) of the regulations the Georgia Environmental Protection Department promulgated under the Georgia Air Quality Act. The city does not restate the EPD's exemption list in its own code; instead, § 2-6-120 requires the city clerk to keep a copy of that state regulation on file for public inspection, so a resident checking which fires qualify for an exemption has to consult the filed EPD rule, not a separate municipal exemption list.

Enforcement runs through the fire marshal's office created in § 2-6-030, which enforces the fire prevention code citywide, with deputies and delegates authorized to issue citations returnable to Marietta Municipal Court. The general penalty clause for the whole fire prevention chapter, § 2-6-080, applies: a person cited for an open burning violation can be prosecuted after a citation from a Marietta fire department or police officer, and on conviction faces a fine or imprisonment set by § 11-4-080. One conviction does not excuse a continuing violation; the code gives the violator 30 days to correct or remedy the condition, and each day the violation continues after that is treated as a separate offense.

The chapter also allows the city to treat a continuing violation as a nuisance and seek an injunction in Cobb County Superior Court, on top of any citation.