O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-277 (2019)

Sheriffs and chief executive officers of law enforcement agencies to report traffic accident deaths

✓ 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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Every sheriff and chief executive officer of a law enforcement agency other than a sheriff shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, report in writing to the Department of Transportation the death of any person within their jurisdiction during the preceding calendar month as the result of a traffic accident known to them, giving the time and place of the accident and the circumstances relating thereto, in the manner specified by the commissioner of transportation.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 46; Code 1981, § 40-6-278; Code 1981, § 40-6-277, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5A-5; Ga. L. 2003, p. 484, § 12; Ga. L. 2005, p. 334, § 18-8/HB 501.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. - 60 C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 46. 61A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 1692 et seq.