O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-5 (2019)

Persons working on highways

✓ 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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Unless specifically made applicable, the provisions of this chapter, except those contained in Article 15 of this chapter, shall not apply to

authorized persons, teams, motor vehicles, and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon a highway but shall apply to such persons and vehicles when traveling to or from such work.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 25; Code 1933, § 68A-106, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 40; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Term ‘‘work’’ encompasses both construction and repair. Myerholtz v. Conway, 108 Ga. App. 697, 134 S.E.2d 513 (1963),

overruled on other grounds, Aultman v. Spellmeyer, 111 Ga. App. 769, 143 S.E.2d 403 (1965).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 8 Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 426.

C.J.S. - 60A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 889.