O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 32-4-94 (2019)

Standards for construction of curb ramps

✓ 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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(a) The standard for construction of curbs on each side of any municipal street or of any connecting street or road for which curbs have been prescribed by the governing body of the municipal corporation having jurisdiction thereover shall be not less than one ramp per lineal block giving on the crosswalks at intersections. Such ramps shall be at least 40 inches wide and shall be so constructed as to allow reasonable access to the crosswalk for physically disabled persons.

(b) Standards set for curb ramping under subsection (a) of this Code section shall not apply to any curb existing on July 1, 1974, but shall apply to all new curb construction and to all replacement curbs constructed at any point in a block which gives reasonable access to a crosswalk; provided, however, that the standards set for curb ramping under subsection (a) of this Code section shall apply to curbs on each side of the street circling the state capitol; provided, further, that the standard for construction of curbs on each side of the street circling the state capitol shall be not less than two ramps per lineal block giving on the crosswalks at intersections.

History

Ga. L. 1974, p. 514, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 14.

Annotations

Cross references. - Access to and use

of public facilities by physically disabled persons generally, T. 30, C. 3.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 8. C.J.S. - 64 C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 1141. ALR. - Right of municipality to hasten flow of surface water along natural drain

ways by improvements of street or highway, 36 A.L.R. 1463. Liability of municipality for injury to lateral support in grading street, 44 A.L.R. 1494.

PART 2 EXERCISE BY MUNICIPALITIES OF POWER TO CONTRACT GENERALLY RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Construction and effect of ‘‘changed conditions’’ clause in public

works or construction contract with state or its subdivision, 56 A.L.R.4th 1042.