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

O.C.G.A. § 32-6-22 (2019)

Height of vehicles and loads

✓ 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) Except as authorized in subsection (b) of this Code section and except when so authorized by a permit issued pursuant to Code Section 32-6-28, no vehicle unladen or with a load shall exceed a height of 13 feet, six inches.

(b) On highways which constitute a part of The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways as such term is used in 23 U.S.C. Section 127 and ramps or service streets which provide reasonable access thereto, no vehicle transporting motor vehicles (commonly known as automobile carriers) unladen or with a load shall exceed a height of 14 feet.

History

Ga. L. 1927, p. 226, § 15; Code 1933, § 68-401; Ga. L. 1941, p. 449, § 1; Ga. L. 1956, p. 83, § 2; Ga. L. 1959, p. 27, § 1; Ga. L. 1964, p. 83, § 1; Ga. L.

1968, p. 30, § 1; Code 1933, § 95A-956, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1010, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 136, § 32.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Traffic regulation. - This section qualifies as a statute relating to traffic upon the public roads, streets, and high-

ways, violation of which is punishable as a misdemeanor offense. 1979 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U79-14.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Violation of regulation governing size or weight of motor vehicles, or combinations of vehicles and loads, on the

highway as basis of liability for personal injury, death, or damage to private property, 21 A.L.R.3d 989.