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2018 Georgia Code 40-6-162 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 40 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

Section 6. Uniform Rules of the Road, 40-6-1 through 40-6-397.

ARTICLE 8 SCHOOL BUSES

40-6-162. Use of visual signals.

A school bus driver shall actuate the visual signals required by Code Sections 40-8-111 and 40-8-115 whenever, but only whenever, the school bus is stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children. A school bus driver shall not actuate the visual signals:

  1. At intersections or other places where traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals or police officers; or
  2. In designated school bus loading areas where the bus is entirely off the roadway.

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 89; Code 1933, § 68A-706, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 40; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

Cross references.

- Code section not applicable to public transit systems transporting school children, § 40-8-114.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Intersection with stop sign.

- School bus driver was authorized to actuate the flashers and stop arm of the bus at an intersection with a stop sign. Parker v. State, 228 Ga. App. 15, 491 S.E.2d 113 (1997).

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