Coweta County, GA Public Conduct: Loitering Rules (2026)

5-3(c), bans idling, loitering or loafing in an alcoholic beverage establishment, hotel, billiard room, street, lane, sidewalk or alley, or any other public place within the county to the encouragement of loafing and idleness. It also separately bars being one of an assembly of persons loafing, idling or loitering in those same locations for the same purpose, and bars acting or conducting oneself in a suspicious manner or failing to give a satisfactory explanation for one's presence at that place under the circumstances. That third clause gives officers discretion to stop and question anyone in a public place whose behavior looks suspicious and to cite them if they cannot account for their presence.

Subsection (b) adds a parental-responsibility clause modeled on the juvenile curfew section next door: it is unlawful for a parent, guardian, or any other person with custody or control of a minor to permit, allow or encourage that minor to become a common loiterer. Both subsections carry the same enforcement path, punishment as provided in section 1-15, the county's general penalty provision, rather than a penalty specific to loitering. 00, up to 60 days imprisonment, or both, and each day the loitering condition continues can be charged as a separate offense. The ordinance applies countywide and is most often used alongside trespass or open-container enforcement at bars, hotels, and business-district sidewalks.