Stonecrest, GA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Stonecrest Code § 17-171 requires pedestrians to cross in a crosswalk whenever they are in a business district or on any street or highway the City has designated for that requirement; crossing anywhere else in those areas is unlawful even if no vehicle is nearby. Section 17-172 covers the rest of the city's streets, where no crosswalk requirement applies outright: a pedestrian there still may not cross a roadway except by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb, unless the pedestrian instead uses a marked crosswalk.

Read together, the two sections eliminate the classic diagonal, mid-block jaywalk everywhere in the city: in business districts and on designated streets the crosswalk is mandatory, and on every other street a pedestrian who skips the crosswalk must still take the most direct, perpendicular line across rather than angling across the road. Both sections sit in Chapter 17, Article V, Pedestrians, immediately after the residential permit parking rules and just before the bicycle article, and neither section carries its own penalty clause, so enforcement falls back on § 17-1(b)'s instruction that violations of Chapter 17 are punished as provided in Chapter 1 unless another penalty is expressly stated.