Hall County, GA Public Health Rules: Rodent Control (2026)

300B makes it unlawful to place, abandon, leave, keep, or store junk and salvage material, including non-functioning motor vehicles, appliances, machinery, equipment, or their parts, outdoors on any public or private land in Hall County, unless the material sits within a permitted junk or salvage yard or a designated public disposal area. The same sentence adds the rodent-control standard directly: all such materials must be stored in a manner that will preclude the harborage of rodents and insects, tying the anti-junk rule to a vector-control purpose rather than leaving it as a pure aesthetics ordinance.

030's specific rule on screening of junk yards, so a legally operating junk or salvage yard still has to be fenced and screened even though it is exempt from the outright storage ban. Because this rule sits inside the same solid waste chapter that elsewhere repeatedly limits itself to the unincorporated area, it reaches property outside Gainesville, Oakwood, Flowery Branch, and the county's other incorporated cities, which enforce their own separate codes.