O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-14-26 (2019)

Revoking traffic-control signal monitoring device permit; hearing; reconsideration

✓ 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) Upon issuance by the commissioner of transportation of an order denying an application for or suspending or revoking a traffic-control signal monitoring device permit, the governing authority affected shall be afforded a hearing, to be held within 30 days of the effective date of the order. The hearing shall be held before the commissioner of the department or his or her designee, and, within 30 days following the hearing, the governing authority affected shall be served with a written decision announcing whether the permit shall remain denied, suspended, or revoked or whether it shall be granted or reinstated. (b) Only after the expiration of three years following the revocation of a traffic-control signal monitoring device permit shall the governing authority make application, upon a change of circumstances being shown, to the commissioner of transportation for a reconsideration of whether the governing authority should be permitted to use traffic-control signal monitoring devices.

History

(Code 1981, § 40-14-26, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1184, § 8/HB 77; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 40/SB 46.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Safety Program, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Drivers Services, Motorcycle Safety, Subject 375-7-4. Editor’s notes. - This chapter was to take effect upon adequate appropriations being made by the General Assembly. As a means of revising the Code sections in this chapter, Ga. L. 1986, p. 181 was enacted as an amendment to the 1984 Act (Ga. L. 1984, p. 644) enacting this chapter, rather than as an amendment to the Code itself.

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Section 2 of Ga. L. 1986, p. 181 provided that that Act ‘‘shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor [March 18, 1986] or upon its becoming law without such approval; provided, however, that no provision of this Act shall affect or supersede Section 2 of the said 1984 Act [which provided the appropriations-based effective date].’’ Initial funds were appropriated in 1986 for a program coordinator. Additional funds were appropriated in 1987 for implementation of this chapter.