O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-7-3 (2019)

‘‘Off-road vehicle’’ defined

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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As used in this chapter, the term ‘‘off-road vehicle’’ means any motorized vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain and not intended for use predominantly on public roads. The term includes, but is not limited to, four-wheel drive vehicles, low-pressure tire vehicles, two-wheel vehicles, nonhighway tire vehicles, amphibious machines, ground effect or air cushion vehicles, and

any other means of transportation deriving power from any source other than muscle or wind. The term shall exclude any motorboat; any military, fire, law enforcement, or other government vehicle being used for official purposes; any vehicles used exclusively on airports; all farm machinery, farm tractors, and other vehicles used exclusively for agricultural purposes; any self-propelled equipment for harvesting and transportation of forest products, for clearing land for planting, for utility services and maintenance, for earth moving, construction, or mining; and self-propelled lawnmowers, snowblowers, garden or lawn tractors, or golf carts, while such vehicles are being used exclusively for their designed purposes.

History

(Ga. L. 1976, p. 330, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 98, § 1-1/HB 207; Ga. L. 2012, p. 726, § 4/HB 795.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 7A Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 1 et seq.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1999–2006 · leading case: Crosby v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., 524 S.E.2d 313 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999).
Crosby v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., 524 S.E.2d 313 (Ga. Ct. App. 1999). · cites it 2× ““Off-road vehicle” is defined under OCGA § 40-7-3 (Ga. L. 1976, p. 330, § 3) as any motorized vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain and not intended for use predominantly…”
Simmons v. State, 635 S.E.2d 849 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 2× “Pretermitting the question of whether or not golf carts fall within the definition of “off-road vehicle” found in OCGA § 40-7-3, the DUI statute by its plain language applies to “any moving vehicle”: *253 Aperson shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any moving…”
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