Paulding County, GA Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)

Chapter 70's Article I gives the sheriff, not a permitting office, the authority to manage parade traffic. Section 70-3 applies "in cases where traffic upon the roads of the county may become congested upon occasions of parades, at theaters and other public assemblages where large numbers of vehicles are assembled," and lets the sheriff "make temporary rules directing and regulating the traffic in these congested districts." There is no separate parade-permit fee schedule or written-application process in the Code; the sheriff's temporary traffic order functions as the county's mechanism for controlling a parade route, and organizers coordinate with the Sheriff's Office in advance so those temporary rules can be posted before the event.

A person who has been warned of the temporary traffic regulations and ignores them "shall be liable therefor as for other violations of this Code" under § 70-3. Separately, § 46-63(7) of the noise ordinance exempts "any parade, celebration, performance, program, sporting event, activity or other event authorized by a county, city or school district governing body" from the county's general noise prohibitions, meaning an event that has not been authorized by a governing body does not get that noise exemption and instead stays subject to Article III of Chapter 46. Section 70-1 separately adopts the state's Uniform Rules of the Road, O.C.G.A. §§ 40-6-1 through 40-6-395, as the county's baseline traffic law, so any parade activity is layered on top of state traffic law as well as the sheriff's temporary orders.