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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 32. HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, AND FERRIES · Chapter 4. STATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL ROAD SYSTEMS · Article 2. STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM

32-4-20. Composition of state highway system.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The state highway system shall consist of an integrated network of arterials and of other public roads or bypasses serving as the major collectors therefor. No public road shall be designated as a part of the state highway system unless it meets at least one of the following requirements:

  2. (1)

    Serves trips of substantial length and duration indicative of regional, state-wide, or interstate importance;#

  3. (2)

    Connects adjoining county seats;#

  4. (3)

    Connects urban or regional areas with outlying areas, both intrastate and interstate; or#

  5. (4)

    Serves as part of the principal collector network for the state-wide and interstate arterial public road system.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 95A-202, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1343, § 5/HB 817; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1072, § 1/SB 169.

Cross references

Giving of notice of intention to condemn road constituting part of state highway system for purpose of constructing electric power plant, § 22-3-42.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t32-(v23a)-2019-pdf.pdf, Volume V23A, 2019 edition, pages 140 to 141; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 04a286a38b4e.