Bulloch County, GA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Bulloch County's Public Road Right-of-Way Ordinance treats blocking public passage as two separate violations. Sec. 5-30(a)(1) makes it unlawful to purposely obstruct a public road, street, sidewalk or other public passage in a way that renders it impassable to the public without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard, once the person responsible has failed or refused to remove the obstruction after an official request from the board of commissioners or a peace officer's order to do so within a specified time. Sec. 5-30(a)(2) goes further and targets intentional access-blocking: knowingly and without authority blocking, or attempting to block, or interfering with the public's access to or from a public or private property using any public street, roadway, alley or easement, by any impediment designed to discourage public use.

The two provisions cover different conduct: the first is about a passage rendered impassable and only violated once removal is refused, while the second reaches any deliberate impediment meant to keep the public out, regardless of whether the passage is fully blocked. Sec. 5-30(b) backs both up with a self-help remedy: county agents and employees may enter the road, alley or easement and take whatever action is necessary to bring the site back into compliance whenever either kind of prohibited obstruction occurs, without waiting on a citation to be resolved first. Enforcement runs through county code enforcement officers and the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office.