Warner Robins, GA Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Prohibited items
- old cars, scrap car parts, old household appliances
- Notice before summons
- 15 days to remove the items
- 'Old car' triggers
- inoperable, no inspection sticker, or no current tag
- Repeat violation
- citation issued without new notice within 6 months
- Penalty
- up to $1,000 fine and/or 1 year jail (Sec. 16-4(a))
Summary
Storing an inoperable, uninspected or untagged car, scrap car parts, or an old household appliance on a residential lot is illegal in Warner Robins under Sec. 16-3. The owner gets a 15-day written notice to remove the items before the city issues a summons, and repeat cases can skip the notice.
Sec. 16-3. - Storage of old cars, scrap parts, old household appliances, etc., on residential lots; notice. (a)It shall be illegal to store old cars, scrap parts of cars, old household appliances, and other such items on any residential lot within the city.(b)The occupant of any lot found to be in violation as stated above will be given a fifteen-day notice to remove the items before a summons is issued.(c)The term "old cars" as used in this section shall mean:(1)Any car which is inoperable because of missing parts such as the motor, tires or wheels, or any other part necessary to make the car operable;(2)Any car which does not have displayed a current Georgia state or other state motor vehicle inspection sticker, if required; and(3)Any car which does not have displayed a current license tag, including historical tags.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 16-3 makes it illegal to store old cars, scrap car parts, and old household appliances on any residential lot in the city. The section defines an 'old car' precisely: a vehicle inoperable because it is missing a motor, tires, wheels or another part needed to run; a vehicle without a current Georgia (or other state) motor vehicle inspection sticker if one is required; or a vehicle without a current license tag, including expired historical tags. Any one of those three conditions is enough to bring a vehicle under the ban.
Before a summons issues, the occupant gets a 15-day written notice to remove the offending items; only after that window passes without compliance does the city move to a summons. The companion nuisance-abatement section, Sec. 16-4, lets the city step in directly if the property owner still will not act: after five days' notice and a further ten days without abatement, the city can hire labor and buy materials to clear the violation itself and then bill the cost to the property through an execution treated like a tax lien.
Sec. 16-4(c) also lets the city skip the notice period entirely for a second violation within six months of an earlier one, issuing a citation immediately. , but the local storage ban is what actually governs junk cars sitting on a residential lot inside Warner Robins.
Violations & Fines
Creating or maintaining the violation is treated as a nuisance under Sec. 16-4(a): a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment in the city jail for up to one year, or both, with abatement costs the city incurs also billable to the owner and collectible like an ad valorem tax execution. A second violation within six months skips the 15-day notice and goes straight to citation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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