O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-8-110 (2019)

Identification and color

✓ 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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(a) Every bus used for the transportation of school children shall bear upon the front and rear thereof a plainly visible sign containing the words ‘‘SCHOOL BUS’’ in letters not less than eight inches in height. (b) On and after January 1, 1971, every new school bus purchased for the transportation of school children shall be painted National School Bus Chrome Yellow.

History

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 89; Ga. L. 1970, p. 586, § 2.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Code section not applicable to public transit systems transporting school children, § 40-8-114. JUDICIAL DECISIONS Editor’s notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under former Code 1933, § 68-311 are included in the annotations for this Code section. Failure to mark bus is negligence

per se. - Operation of a bus in transporting school children without the bus being marked ‘‘school bus’’ is negligence per se. Dishinger v. Suburban Coach Co., 84 Ga. App. 498, 66 S.E.2d 242 (1951) (decided under former Code 1933, § 68-311).