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2018 Georgia Code 32-6-174 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 32-6-174 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 32-6-174

TITLE 32 HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES

Section 6. Regulation of Maintenance and Use of Public Roads Generally, 32-6-1 through 32-6-248.

ARTICLE 6 PUBLIC UTILITIES

32-6-174. Promulgation of regulations by department.

The department may promulgate reasonable regulations governing the installation, construction, maintenance, renewal, removal, and relocation of pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, poles, towers, tracks, traffic and other such signals, and other equipment and appliances of any utility in, on, along, over, or under any part of the state highway system or any public road project which the department has undertaken or agreed to undertake or which has been completed by the department pursuant to its authority. In addition to the requirements of such department regulations, it shall be the responsibility of the utility to obtain whatever franchise is required by law.

(Code 1933, § 95A-1005, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1.)

Law reviews.

- For annual survey of administrative law, see 56 Mercer L. Rev. 31 (2004). For annual survey of local government law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 289 (2005).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Georgia Power Co. v. Collum, 176 Ga. App. 61, 334 S.E.2d 922 (1985).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- State regulation of rates to consumers of gas or electricity transported across state lines for light or power purposes, 7 A.L.R. 1094.

Constitutionality of state legislation to reimburse public utilities for cost of relocating their facilities because of highway construction, conditioned upon federal reimbursement of the state under the terms of Federal-Aid Highway Act (23 U.S.C. § 123), 75 A.L.R.2d 419.

Placement, maintenance, or design of standing utility pole as affecting private utility's liability for personal injury resulting from vehicle's collision with pole within or beside highway, 51 A.L.R.4th 602.

Cases Citing Georgia Code 32-6-174 From Courtlistener.com

Total Results: 3

City of MacOn v. Alltel Communications, Inc.

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2004-05-03

Citation: 596 S.E.2d 589, 277 Ga. 823, 2004 Fulton County D. Rep. 1522, 2004 Ga. LEXIS 340

Snippet: question is preempted by OCGA §§ 32-4-92(a)(10), 32-6-174, and Georgia Department of Transportation Rule

Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. v. Cobb County

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 2003-11-10

Citation: 588 S.E.2d 704, 277 Ga. 314, 2003 Fulton County D. Rep. 3298, 2003 Ga. LEXIS 949

Snippet: Department of Transportation's regulations under OCGA § 32-6-174. See OCGA § 32-4-42(6). [2] See Cotton States

Twiggs County v. Atlanta Gas Light Co.

Court: Supreme Court of Georgia | Date Filed: 1992-06-12

Citation: 262 Ga. 276, 417 S.E.2d 13, 92 Fulton County D. Rep. 1003, 1992 Ga. LEXIS 445

Snippet: highway system under authority of Code Section 32-6-174. As a condition precedent to the granting of such