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2018 Georgia Code 32-4-20 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 32-4-20 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 32-4-20

TITLE 32 HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES

Section 4. State, County, and Municipal Road Systems, 32-4-1 through 32-4-123.

ARTICLE 2 STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM

32-4-20. Composition of state highway system.

The state highway system shall consist of an integrated network of arterials and of other public roads or bypasses serving as the major collectors therefor. No public road shall be designated as a part of the state highway system unless it meets at least one of the following requirements:

  1. Serves trips of substantial length and duration indicative of regional, state-wide, or interstate importance;
  2. Connects adjoining county seats;
  3. Connects urban or regional areas with outlying areas, both intrastate and interstate; or
  4. Serves as part of the principal collector network for the state-wide and interstate arterial public road system.

(Code 1933, § 95A-202, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1343, § 5/HB 817; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1072, § 1/SB 169.)

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, deleted "or" at the end of paragraph (3); substituted "road system; or" for "roads" at the end of paragraph (4); and added paragraph (5).

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, inserted "or" at the end of paragraph (3); deleted "; or" at the end of paragraph (4); and deleted former paragraph (5), which read: "Serves as part of a programmed road improvement project plan in which the department will utilize state or federal funds for the acquisition of rights of way".

Cross references.

- Giving of notice of intention to condemn road constituting part of state highway system for purpose of constructing electric power plant, § 22-3-42.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Road not part of state highway system.

- Trial court did not err in granting the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) summary judgment in a driver's action alleging that the department negligently maintained a dirt road because the road was not a part of the state highway system since the road did not meet any of the four requirements of O.C.G.A. § 32-4-20, and the DOT had no duty to maintain the road; the dirt road was a dead-end loop that led back to a county road and was part of a right-of-way that was fenced off from the travel lanes of an interstate, and at some point before the incident, access to the road had been restricted by a gate. Barrett v. Ga. DOT, 304 Ga. App. 667, 697 S.E.2d 217, cert. denied, No. S10C1813, 2010 Ga. LEXIS 918 (Ga. 2010).

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