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

Spalding County's Exterior Property Areas chapter, Code Ch. 8-3, replaced the county's former soil erosion rules when the Board of Commissioners adopted Ordinance No. 2025-77 on July 7, 2025. Section 8-3001 sets the general maintenance duty: exterior property and premises must be kept clean, safe, and sanitary, and the occupant and the property owner are each responsible for the part of the exterior property that occupant occupies or controls. Section 8-3002 then applies that duty specifically to sidewalks, walkways, stairs, driveways, parking spaces, and similar areas, requiring them to be kept in a proper state of repair and free from hazardous conditions such as cracked pavement, uneven surfaces, or trip hazards.

Because the section does not name a separate maintenance authority for the public right-of-way, the duty runs through the same occupant-and-owner structure set in § 8-3001: whoever occupies or controls the abutting exterior property is responsible for keeping the walking and driving surfaces on it safe. Enforcement runs through the Department of Community Development's code enforcement staff, and both sections are part of the same property-maintenance framework used for the county's substandard-property and nuisance rules in Chapter 2, so a hazardous sidewalk can also support a public nuisance finding under § 8-2002 if it goes uncorrected.