Forsyth County, GA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

Anything which occurs during or as a result of the handling or disposal of solid waste to the detriment of the public welfare in that it injures health, offends the senses, obstructs the reasonable and comfortable use of property, or causes inconvenience or discomfort to a community or neighborhood;

(3) Any of the following conditions:

a. Toilets, plumbing, sewers, septic tank systems, containers or any other sanitary waste disposal facility in active failure or visibly in need of repair.

b. Conditions causing the breeding and attraction of rodents, flies, ticks, mosquitoes or any other disease carrying insects, including discarded accumulations of trash, garbage and/or litter.

c. Sewage, kitchen waste discharge, laundry waste discharge, or any other wastes deposited upon or allowed to remain upon the ground's surface or any other place so as to be or to become detrimental to human health or well-being.

d. The keeping of animals or fowl in such a manner as to permit the visible accumulation of excrement.

Subsections (3)(b) and (3)(d) of this definition shall have no application to active farming operations on property zoned agricultural, including active poultry and cattle farms.

Offal waste means a type of solid waste which denotes animal matter, whether of land or marine origin, generated by the processing, preparation or packaging of food or animal matter at butcher shops; slaughterhouses; and/or food processing, packaging, rendering or fertilizer plants.