Walton County, GA Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

Walton County classifies public urination and defecation as disorderly conduct under Chapter 34, Article II, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions. Section 34-31(11) states that it is unlawful for any person to defecate or urinate on or adjacent to any street or sidewalk, in the halls, elevators, stairways or any other area designated for public passage within any public or commercial building, or on any property open to public view, anywhere in the unincorporated area of the county. The subsection sits alongside eleven other disorderly conduct offenses in the same section, including fighting, obstructing public ways and harassing a police officer, and shares the article's single penalty clause.

Section 34-32 makes a violation of any mandatory provision of Article II an offense, and a person convicted in the magistrate court of Walton County is punished as provided in section 1-12, the general penalty section of the Code of Walton County. The current text of section 34-31 was enacted by an ordinance of November 6, 2018, which repealed and replaced a version originally adopted under Ordinance No. 91-19 in 1991; both dealt with the same subject matter, disorderly public conduct in the unincorporated county.

Because the offense is defined broadly to include any property open to public view, not just streets and sidewalks, it reaches parking lots, parks and other publicly visible outdoor space, in addition to the interior common areas of public and commercial buildings named in the subsection.