O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-60-5 (2019)

Installation of road grates to accommodate bicycles

✓ 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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After July 1, 1978, each county and municipal corporation shall install all newly located grates upon any public roadway so as to accommodate bicycles traveling on the public road parallel to the lane of travel of vehicles proceeding over such roadways, except that this Code section shall not apply to limited access highways or other streets or roads on which bicycle travel is prohibited.

History

Ga. L. 1978, p. 257, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Existing sewer grates which have been adjusted due to street resurfacing are not considered newly located grates

for the purpose of installing bicycle safe grates. DeWaters v. City of Atlanta, 169 Ga. App. 41, 311 S.E.2d 232 (1983).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Highways, Streets, and Bridges, § 448.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1983–1983 · leading case: DeWaters v. City of Atlanta, 311 S.E.2d 232 (Ga. Ct. App. 1983).

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DeWaters v. City of Atlanta, 311 S.E.2d 232 (Ga. Ct. App. 1983). · cites it 8× “See OCGA § 36-60-5 (Code Ann. § 69-1612). However, the City does not usually replace existing grates with bicycle-safe grates unless either a complaint has been received or requested to do so by a bicycle club.”

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