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2018 Georgia Code 40-6-396 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 40-6-396 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 40-6-396

TITLE 40 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

Section 6. Uniform Rules of the Road, 40-6-1 through 40-6-397.

ARTICLE 15 SERIOUS TRAFFIC OFFENSES

40-6-396. Homicide by interference with official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal; serious injury by interference with official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal.

  1. Any person who, without malice aforethought, causes the death of another person through the violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-6-26 commits the offense of homicide by interference with an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than 15 years.
  2. Any person who, without malice aforethought, causes bodily harm to another by depriving such other person of a member of his or her body, by rendering a member of his or her body useless, by seriously disfiguring his or her body or a member thereof, or by causing organic brain damage which renders the body or any member thereof useless through the violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-6-26 commits the offense of serious injury by interference with an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five years.

(Code 1981, §40-6-396, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1281, § 3.)

Law reviews.

- For review of 1996 uniform rules of the road legislation, see 13 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 241 (1996).

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 40-6-396

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State v. Jackson, 697 S.E.2d 757 (Ga. 2010).

Cited 173 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 28, 2010 | 287 Ga. 646, 2010 Fulton County D. Rep. 2574

...f feticide by vehicle in the second degree if he or she causes the death of an unborn child by any injury to the mother of such child by violating any [other] provision of this title ... which would be homicide by vehicle in the second degree...."); § 40-6-396(a) (" Any person who, without malice aforethought, causes the death of another person through the violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-6-26 commits the offense of homicide by interference with an official traffic-control device...