Cherokee County, GA Mobility & Curb Rules: Shared E-Scooter Rules (2026)

Section 50-1 of Chapter 50 (Streets, Sidewalks and Other Public Places), adopted by Ordinance No. 2001-012 on August 14, 2001, opens Article I of the chapter with a flat sidewalk ban: subsection (a) defines 'motorized' to mean gasoline powered, and subsection (b) makes it unlawful to operate any motorized vehicle, motorized equipment, motorized scooters, motorized skateboards, motorized cycles or any other similar vehicle on any public sidewalk within unincorporated Cherokee County. Because the ban is written around gasoline-powered devices, it reaches gas scooters and mini-bikes directly; the county has adopted no companion ordinance authorizing or regulating electric dockless scooter-share fleets of the kind operated in nearby Atlanta, so no shared-scooter program has a lawful path onto a county sidewalk under this chapter.

The section is the entirety of Article I before the chapter moves to address numbers (Article II) and road drainage (Article V), meaning sidewalk vehicle use is not otherwise carved up by district or zone; the prohibition is countywide across every public sidewalk in the unincorporated area. The rule is enforced by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and Marshal's Office, the agencies with authority over Chapter 50's public-way provisions elsewhere in the same title. Because the statute predates the national rise of e-scooter share systems, it does not address parking, no-ride zones, permit fees, or geofencing that newer municipal scooter-share ordinances typically include; it stops at the sidewalk-operation ban itself. Any operator of gasoline-powered scooters must confine riding to the roadway or private property instead.