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

The same 2025 ordinance that regulates e-bikes, § 2-13-55, also defines and regulates "Electric Play Vehicles," the county's term for electric scooters, skateboards, unicycles, and similar single-rider electric devices that can't exceed 20 mph, the category most shared-scooter fleets fall into. Under § 2-13-55(b), electric play vehicles may operate on county-owned or maintained multi-use, shared-use, and bicycle paths in the unincorporated area outside Jekyll Island, capped at 15 mph unless posted signage sets a different limit; riders must otherwise follow the same yield, keep-right, and reckless-operation rules that apply to bicycles and e-bikes.

The ordinance also carves out a no-ride zone: no one may operate any "wheeled conveyance," a term broad enough to cover scooters, on the sidewalks on either side of Mallery Street on St. Simons Island between its intersection with Magnolia Avenue and the foot of Mallery Street at the pier, the heart of the Pier Village shopping district. The only carve-out from that zone is for personal mobility devices used by people with disabilities, capped at 5 mph. Businesses that commercially rent bicycles or electric bicycles in unincorporated Glynn County must give each renter a printed or electronic copy of the operational rules under § 2-13-55(e), and the county "strongly encourages" a signed or electronic acknowledgment of receipt, though the rental-notice duty as written names bicycles and electric bicycles rather than electric play vehicles specifically.