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

Section 24-4(a) of the Macon-Bibb County Code makes it unlawful to park, leave standing, leave lying, abandon, or otherwise place, provide, or offer for use a Shareable Dockless Vehicle in a public right-of-way or on public property anywhere in the county, and separately unlawful to operate one there. Section 24-3 defines a Shareable Dockless Vehicle broadly to include any Shareable Vehicle, such as a motor vehicle, bicycle, scooter, or skateboard, that a private operator makes available for on-demand public rental without requiring the rider to return it to a fixed docking station, which covers the app-based e-scooter and e-bike fleets used in other cities.

Section 24-4(b) gives law enforcement officers, parking and code enforcement officers, other county officials the Mayor or County Manager designates, and any contracted impound vendor authority to impound a vehicle found in violation. 00, both adjustable by the Mayor and County Manager over time. The county must make a good-faith effort to identify the vehicle's owner and send written notice by certified mail or, if only an email address is available, by email, and that notice must give the owner at least 30 days to demand a bench trial in Municipal Court contesting the impoundment before the county can keep the fees.

A vehicle unclaimed within 120 days of impoundment is deemed abandoned and disposed of under the county's abandoned-property policies, without relieving the owner of the accrued fees. Section 24-5 leaves the door open for a future permit program: if Macon-Bibb County ever adopts regulations to permit Shareable Dockless Vehicles or rental businesses, properly permitted operators would be exempt from the Article's ban, but no such program exists in the code as written.