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

O.C.G.A. § 40-6-75 (2019)

Highway construction and maintenance personnel and vehicles

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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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(a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work upon a highway within any highway construction or maintenance area indicated by official traffic-control devices.

(b) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to an authorized vehicle actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays flashing or revolving amber lights and has a permit to use such amber lights.

History

(Code 1933, § 68A-406, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S. - 60 C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 35.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Jury instructions. - Trial court's omission of words from a jury instruction to the effect that there was a violation of O.C.G.A. § 40-6-75 was not error because the trial court's charge, which read verbatim from the statute and then charged the jury on negligence per se, substantially covered the principles contained in the construction worker's request to charge. Gates v. Navy, 274 Ga. App. 180, 617 S.E.2d 163 (2005).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2005–2005 · leading case: Gates v. Navy, 617 S.E.2d 163 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005).
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Gates v. Navy, 617 S.E.2d 163 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 3× “In lieu of giving Gates’ requested charge on negligence per se verbatim, the trial court first charged the jury using the language of the aforesaid statute: “The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work…”
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