Hall County, GA Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Sec. 420(B) reserves licensing power over flea markets, outdoor exhibitions, outdoor performances, outdoor musical festivals, and other outdoor public assembly events specifically to the Hall County Board of Commissioners. Applicants must show conclusive evidence under subsection (C) that they will provide sufficient paid security to control the public and enforce laws, adequate emergency medical facilities at the applicant's expense, adequate maintenance personnel to clean the event site and adjacent littered areas, a traffic study establishing that public roads can handle anticipated patrons, at least one toilet fixture per 100 patrons, and adequate drinking water.

Those six specific requirements in subsections C(1) through C(6) drop away entirely if anticipated attendance is under 10,000 people, per subsection (G). on Sundays, and must end by midnight other nights, except for non-noisemaking activity, per subsection (F). An applicant who misses the deadline to get on the agenda for two successive board meetings before the event's start faces automatic denial under subsection (E), though license renewals without objections can clear in a single meeting. Subsection (H) lets a licensee holding a special events business license conduct multiple outdoor events under one license: before each event the licensee must notify the business license director in writing, and the director decides whether the planned event matches the character of what was listed on the original application, referring close calls to the board of commissioners for its next regular meeting.