Rockdale County, GA HOA Rules: CC&R Enforcement (2026)

Rockdale County's Unified Development Ordinance draws a firm line between what the county's own permits enforce and what a subdivision's private declaration of covenants, conditions and restrictions covers. Section 218-13(pp)(11), tucked inside the use-and-development standards for manufactured homes, requires the county to print a specific disclosure on the face of every manufactured home permit application: the applicant is warned that the proposed use or structure may be restricted or prohibited by private covenants or other private legal restrictions and/or agreements applicable to the property, that investigating and complying with those private restrictions is solely the responsibility of the applicant, and that the county's issuance of a permit has no effect or impact upon, and does not certify the compliance or noncompliance of, such private covenants and restrictions.

In other words, a Rockdale County building or zoning permit is not a signal that a project clears the subdivision's CC&Rs, and the Department of Planning and Development has no role policing an HOA's private deed restrictions; that job belongs to the homeowners association itself, through whatever remedies its own declaration provides, such as fines, liens or a civil suit in Superior Court. The county's own review authority is narrower and different in kind: under § 302-73, the county attorney reviews an association's declarations only for private-street subdivisions, and only to confirm they conform to county ordinances, with the county attorney's written consent required before those particular declarations can be amended, a permitting-conformance check rather than day-to-day CC&R enforcement.