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

Section 8-65, in the Canvassers and Solicitors article of Chapter 8, is the county's sidewalk and street obstruction rule as applied to door-to-door and mobile selling: it provides that no canvasser, solicitor, peddler or door-to-door salesperson authorized to do business in the county may, in carrying on that business, obstruct the whole or any part of any sidewalk, street or highway. The same sentence adds a continuous-movement requirement: any person peddling in the county, or using the streets or sidewalks in the county to sell or offer for sale goods, wares, medicines or merchandise, must continually move from place to place rather than stopping and holding a fixed selling position.

Read together with § 8-62(b)'s ban on locating a mobile business on public sidewalks, streets, alleys, parks, parking lots and rights-of-way, the obstruction rule reinforces that a licensed peddler's presence on the public way is meant to be transient, not a fixed stand. The rule sits within Article III's registration scheme, so it applies to persons who are already subject to that article's permit requirement under § 8-57, and enforcement runs through the same citation and penalty mechanism that governs the rest of the article.