TITLE 40 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

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

ARTICLE 12 ACCIDENTS

40-6-277. Sheriffs and chief executive officers of law enforcement agencies to report traffic accident deaths.

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.

(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.)