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

Section 13-27 of the Whitfield County Code lists four categories of prohibited right-of-way encroachments enforced by the Whitfield County Road Department. County right-of-way cannot be used for parking or storing any vehicle, except for temporary parking of a disabled vehicle on the road shoulder, and no materials may be stored or placed on the right-of-way unless the department authorizes it. The section also bars diverting stormwater from adjacent property into the county's highway drainage system and bars commercial wastewater on the right-of-way altogether, and it prohibits placing or removing walls, fences, signs, large rocks, monuments, structures, trees or other plant life on county right-of-way without a special encroachment permit obtained under the process in § 13-26.

These obstruction rules sit inside Article II, Road Use Regulations, alongside the county's authority in § 13-21 to require a utility to remove or relocate a facility that obstructs a road the department is improving, on 60 days' written notice followed by a ten-day final notice if the utility fails to act. Because § 13-32 makes "this article," meaning every section from § 13-21 through § 13-32, enforceable as a county ordinance violation, an obstruction placed under § 13-27 without authorization is punishable the same way as an unpermitted driveway or encroachment elsewhere in the chapter.