O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-11-7 (2019)

Exercise of emergency vehicle privileges by ambulance drivers

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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The driver of an ambulance on the public streets, highways, and private access roads of this state, when responding to an emergency call or while transporting a patient, is authorized to operate the ambulance as an emergency vehicle pursuant to Code Section 40-6-6.

History

Code 1933, § 88-3109, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 625, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 304, § 4.

Annotations

Cross references. - Yielding of right

of way to authorized emergency vehicles, § 40-6-74. Duty of pedestrians to yield right of way to authorized vehicles, § 40-6-99.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 7A Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, §§ 185, 224, 232. 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, §§ 611, 716, 921 et seq. 40 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 588 et seq.

C.J.S. - 60 C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, §§ 35, 52. 60A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, §§ 606 et seq., 652, 717, 870, 871, 880. 61A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 1646.