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

Section 2-1 of the Coweta County Code of Ordinances prohibits smoking, tobacco use, and "any smoking device that produces smoke, steam or vapor" on all public properties and in all public areas owned by the county. That sweep expressly reaches county-owned government facilities, buildings, vehicles, playgrounds, and athletic fields, meaning county parks and recreation sites are fully off-limits to lit tobacco and vaping alike. The current version was adopted by an ordinance of October 3, 2006, which replaced an earlier version derived from § 2-9 of the 1985 Code, and it was amended again by Ordinance No.

022-14 on June 3, 2014. The ordinance carves out three narrow exceptions: smoking by employees in private vehicles parked on county property or public rights-of-way; smoking by inmates in designated areas at the Coweta County jail; and smoking by jurors or members of the public in designated areas at the Coweta County Justice Center or in private vehicles parked on county property or rights-of-way. Outside those exceptions, lighting up on a county ball field, playground, or in a county building is a Code violation. Because Chapter 2 sets no dedicated fine for § 2-1, enforcement falls to the Code's general penalty provision, § 1-15, which applies whenever an act is declared unlawful without a specific penalty being provided.