Henry County, GA Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)

Sec. 3-4-212, Disorderly Houses, states that it shall be unlawful for any person to keep, rent or let any house, hall, or room within the jurisdiction of the county, for the congregating of disorderly, riotous or noisy persons or practices to assemble to the disturbance of the neighborhood or some part thereof. The offense targets the person who keeps, rents or lets the space, meaning a homeowner, tenant or landlord who allows repeated loud, riotous gatherings can be charged even where a guest, not the owner, is making the disturbance.

A. Sec. 16-11-44, which separately criminalizes keeping a disorderly house. A related general offense, Sec. 3-4-213, Disturbing the Peace, separately bans creating a disturbance which interferes with the peace, tranquility and good order of the community, and authorizes the police department to abate the noise or disturbance directly upon a valid complaint or an officer's own observation, giving responding officers authority to break up a loud gathering on the spot rather than wait for a citation to run its course. Both sections sit in Chapter 3-4's general offenses subchapter, adopted originally by Ord. No. 82-10 on July 20, 1982, and both are punishable under that chapter's uniform penalty provision.