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

Section 11-22 of the Whitfield County Code, titled "Improper personal conduct," makes it unlawful to engage in violent, abusive, lewd, profane, vulgar, wanton, obscene or otherwise disorderly speech or conduct that is or may be detrimental to the public's enjoyment of a park, or that could injure another person while in the park. The section lists specific examples the ban reaches, including loitering, fighting, throwing or breaking articles, indecent exposure, inappropriate sexual acts, "urinating or defecating in public," and public drunkenness, and it separately bars willfully or unreasonably interfering with a duly permitted park activity or intruding into an area reserved for another person's exclusive use under a department permit.

Because § 11-1 applies chapter 11 to "all parks and recreational areas owned and operated by Whitfield County," the public urination ban reaches every county park, camping area, walking track and sports field the county runs, not Dalton's separately governed city parks. The provision sits alongside the parks chapter's other conduct rules, including the ban on profane or threatening language toward officials in § 11-7(f) and the alcohol restrictions in § 11-17, which together give the department and law enforcement broad grounds to remove a disorderly park visitor.