Barrow County, GA Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)

Sec. " The reach of the rule is defined by ownership and operation, not by location type: it covers county administrative buildings, the courthouse, county parks, ballfields, trails, and any other facility the county runs, whether the smoker is standing in a hallway or on an open athletic field. Because the section is written in Chapter 2, Administration, rather than in the health or environment chapters, it functions as a property-use rule the county applies to itself and its visitors rather than a citywide public-health regulation reaching private business.

Barrow County has not separately extended this ban to sidewalks, streets, or privately owned outdoor dining and drinking establishments in unincorporated areas; compliance for those venues runs through the state Smokefree Air Act instead. No specific enforcement agency or citation form is named in Sec. 2-4 itself, so enforcement defaults to whichever county officer or department oversees the affected property, backed by the Code's general penalty provision.