Paulding County, GA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Section 70-33 is Paulding County's one dedicated parking ordinance for unincorporated roads, and it targets a specific hazard: vehicles stopped in the acceleration or deceleration lanes that let traffic merge into and out of driveways and side roads. Subsection (a) bans parking there for "any automobile, truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer, tractor, trailer combination, motorcycle, moped, or other motor vehicle." Subsection (b) defines those lanes narrowly as the paved strips "adjacent to and to the east of the northbound lanes of traffic and adjacent to and to the west of the southbound lanes of traffic which are not part of the regular roadway but afford access into and out of the driveways and side roads along the highway."

Outside that specific ban, Paulding County does not write its own rules for blocking a driveway, parking against the flow of traffic, or parking too close to an intersection; § 70-1 adopts the state's Uniform Rules of the Road, O.C.G.A. §§ 40-6-1 through 40-6-395, "with like effect as if recited in this chapter," so those broader parking and stopping restrictions come from state law rather than a separate county code section. Section 70-31 supplements both by letting the sheriff, with board approval, post parking-restriction signs and zones; once posted, ignoring them is a Code violation in its own right under § 70-31(e). Marshal's deputies and sheriff's deputies handle enforcement of § 70-33 on unincorporated county roads.