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

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-246 (2019)

Coasting

✓ 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) The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the gears or transmission of such vehicle in neutral.

(b) The driver of a truck or bus when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the clutch disengaged.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 98; Code 1933, § 68A-1108, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Injury to one while coasting in street, 109 A.L.R. 941.