Acworth, GA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Acworth Code of Ordinances § 90-44 makes it unlawful for any person to park an occupied or unoccupied motor vehicle, motorcycle or motor scooter overnight in a designated fire lane within a parking area on privately owned property, expressly including property owned by a merchant, group of merchants or a shopping center. , so the ban only reaches vehicles left in a marked fire lane during that six-hour window rather than general overnight parking anywhere on a private lot. The Acworth Police Department is authorized to issue citations directly to anyone violating the section, without needing a separate towing action first, though § 90-43 separately authorizes towing at the owner's expense for any vehicle in violation of §§ 90-44 through 90-52, including this one.

The rule sits in Chapter 90, Article II, Operation of Vehicles, alongside the city's other parking and towing provisions, and traces to Ordinance No. 2012-15 adopted July 5, 2012, later amended by Ordinance No. 2015-17 on December 17, 2015. Because the ban is tied to designated fire lanes rather than every parking stall, enforcement depends on the lane actually being marked; a lot owner who wants the overnight fire-lane ban enforced needs the fire lane clearly designated so officers and the property owner can point to a marked zone.