Rockdale County, GA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Sidewalk Repair (2026)

Sec. 82-1 assigns sidewalk and street maintenance to the department of public services and engineering, which repairs county-owned streets and sidewalks as needed and as directed by the chairperson of the board of commissioners; the section does not place that duty on the abutting property owner. That maintenance is not automatic for every sidewalk in the unincorporated area, though. Sec. 82-3 requires the board of commissioners to adopt a county road priority schedule each year, ranking every county road, street and sidewalk from highest to lowest priority for improvement, reconstruction or general maintenance, and that schedule can be amended by a simple majority vote.

No road, street, sidewalk or lane may be serviced or improved unless it is on that schedule or specifically exempted, and nothing outside the order of priority may be serviced without the full board's approval. Sec. 82-4 goes further and bars the chairperson or the board from spending any maintenance funds on a road, passageway or sidewalk that is not shown on the county's official highway map, unless the county has legally dedicated and accepted it, or the board finds a public necessity and the county attorney concludes it is legally a public road.

In practice, that means a sidewalk never dedicated to or accepted by the county, including many built by a private subdivider, falls outside Sec. 82-1's maintenance duty and is not the county's responsibility to repair.