Dunwoody, GA Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

City Code § 24-105 sits in Chapter 24, Article IV, Miscellaneous Offenses, a set of provisions Dunwoody carried over largely intact from unincorporated DeKalb County's code at the city's 2008 incorporation. The section is a single flat sentence: it is unlawful to defecate or urinate on the streets or sidewalks, in the halls or elevators of public or commercial buildings, or on any property open to public view in the city. Unlike some surrounding offenses in Article IV, such as the outdoor-water-use restriction at § 24-107 or the moving-at-night permit rule at § 24-103, § 24-105 carries no separate definitions section, no exceptions, and no permit process; the language covers any qualifying location without regard to time of day or intent.

Because it names 'any property open to public view' rather than just streets and sidewalks, the ban reaches parking lots, building exteriors, and other visible outdoor spaces beyond the public right-of-way, as long as the conduct is visible from a place the public can see. Article IV has no dedicated fines provision of its own, unlike Article I's general offenses, which are tied together under § 24-11; that means a § 24-105 violation defaults to the Code's overall general penalty at § 1-6, which caps punishment at the maximum fine or sentence state law or the city Charter allows a municipal court to impose and treats each day a violation continues as a separate offense.