Paulding County, GA Mobility & Curb Rules: Bike Lane Rules (2026)

Chapter 50, Article III of the Paulding County Code creates the county's multi-use trail system and folds every designated trail into the parks system under § 50-62. Section 50-61 defines a "multi-use trail" as any trail or path the board of commissioners designates for pleasure or as an alternative mode of transportation, covering walking, jogging, running, bicycling and horseback riding, but specifically excluding any use by a motorized vehicle.

The operative bicycle rule, § 50-65, is narrow and behavior-based rather than a licensing or lane-marking regime: no person shall operate a bicycle on a multi-use trail in a reckless manner or in any other manner which endangers other users of the trail. There is no numeric speed limit for bicycles on the trails in this section, though park roadways for motor vehicles are separately capped at 15 miles per hour under § 50-10, and the trail rule sets no mandatory helmet requirement or specific yield rule for a class of trail user, so enforcement turns on whether the riding endangered someone else.

Section 50-63 separately bans operating any motorized vehicle on a multi-use trail unless specifically authorized by law, and § 50-64 imposes a parallel reckless-manner standard on horseback riders. Because Article III does not carry its own penalty section, a violation of § 50-65 defaults to the Code's general penalty at § 1-19, a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $100.00 to $1,000.00 and up to six months in jail.