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

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-26 (2019)

Interference with official traffic-control devices or certain signs; travel on closed highway prohibited

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down, or remove any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon or any other part thereof. (b) No person shall, without lawful authority, drive around or through or ignore any official traffic-control device so as to go onto an officially closed highway or road or onto a section of highway or road before it has been officially opened to the public. This Code section shall not apply to police officers in the performance of their duties, to individuals domiciled or making their livelihood within the affected area, or to any person authorized to be in the affected area by the appropriate municipal, county, or state officer.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 39; Code 1933, § 68A-206, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Provisions regarding interference with traffic-control devices, § 32-6-50. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Unwarranted alteration of stop sign negligence per se. - Whether a traffic control device was initially erected by authority of the State Highway Department (now Department of Transportation) or by local municipal authorities, an unwarranted alteration of the stop sign (allegedly replaced after installation of gas

lines so as to face in the wrong direction) constitutes a violation of Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556 and is negligence per se. Richards & Assocs. v. Studstill, 92 Ga. App. 853, 90 S.E.2d 56 (1955), rev’d on other grounds, 212 Ga. 375, 93 S.E.2d 3 (1956).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1992–2010 · leading case: State v. Jackson, 697 S.E.2d 757 (Ga. 2010).
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State v. Jackson, 697 S.E.2d 757 (Ga. 2010). · cites it 4× “"); § 40-6-396(a) (" Any person who, without malice aforethought, causes the death of another person through the violation of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-6-26 commits the offense of homicide by interference with an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal.”
Monica L. Moore v. Gwinnett Cnty., & Xyz Co., & John Doe, Jointly & Severally, J.O. Meadows, 967 F.2d 1495 (11th Cir. 1992). “O.C.G.A. § 40-6-26(b) (Michie 1991) provides: No person shall, without lawful authority, drive around or through or ignore any official traffic-control device so as to go onto an officially closed highway.”
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Monica L. Moore v. Gwinnett Cnty., & Xyz Co., & John Doe, Jointly & Severally, J.O. Meadows, 967 F.2d 1495 (11th Cir. 1992). “O.C.G.A. § 40-6-26(b) (Michie 1991) provides: No person shall, without lawful authority, drive around or through or ignore any official traffic-control device so as to go onto an officially closed highway.”
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