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2018 Georgia Code 40-6-370 | 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 14 EFFECT OF CHAPTER ON POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

40-6-370. Uniform state-wide application of chapter.

The provisions of this chapter and the definitions contained in Code Section 40-1-1 shall be applicable and uniform throughout this state and in all counties and municipalities therein, and no local authority shall enact or enforce any ordinance on a matter covered by the provisions of this chapter except as expressly authorized in Code Sections 40-6-371 and 40-6-372.

(Code 1933, § 68A-1501, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 40; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code 1933, § 68-1606, are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Applicability of former provisions.

- Former Code 1933, Ch. 68-16 applied to streets and highways within the corporate limits of municipalities as well as without. 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) (decided under former Code 1933, § 68-1606).

Chapter made applicable to municipalities.

- Former Code 1933, § 68E-209 (see now O.C.G.A. § 40-8-28), relating to lights on parked vehicles, was made applicable to municipalities by former Code 1933, § 68-1606 (see now O.C.G.A. § 40-6-370). National Upholstery Co. v. Padgett, 108 Ga. App. 857, 134 S.E.2d 856 (1964) (decided under former Code 1933, § 68-1606).

Cited in Cofer v. Cook, 141 Ga. App. 646, 234 S.E.2d 185 (1977).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, opinions under former Code 1933, § 68-1606 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

City ordinance regulating parking on state highway.

- City may not enact an ordinance regulating parking on state highway without first receiving permission of the Department of Transportation. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-U71-3 (decided under former Code 1933, § 68-1606).

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