Cobb County, GA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Cobb County Code of Ordinances Sec. 118-154 sets the county's only curb-painting requirement, and it is narrow: it governs designated bus stops, not general no-parking zones, fire lanes, or loading areas. Under Sec. 118-154(a), only the traffic engineer, defined at Sec. 118-2 as the director of the county Department of Transportation, may designate a taxicab stand or bus stop; a business or resident cannot paint a curb yellow on their own initiative and claim a bus stop. Sec. 118-154(b) fixes the stop at 80 feet in length and puts the painting duty on the bus owner, not the county: the owner of any bus using the stop must cause the curb to be painted yellow, with paint meeting the traffic engineer's uniform specifications.

Sec. 118-154(c) carves out an exception for buses that load and unload passengers at a platform built into the street and separately authorized by the traffic engineer; those platforms do not need a painted curb. Because Sec. 118-1 limits this chapter to all portions of the county road system, the rule reaches only unincorporated Cobb roads; Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs, and Austell each administer their own curb markings on city streets. Once a stop is marked, Sec. 118-153 bars any vehicle other than a bus from stopping, standing, or parking there, except a driver briefly loading or unloading passengers without blocking a bus that is waiting to pull in.

Taxicab stands, by contrast, are marked with signs under Sec. 118-152 and 118-153 rather than curb paint; the yellow-paint duty in this code applies only to bus stops.