Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 14. USE OF SPEED DETECTION DEVICES AND RED LIGHT CAMERAS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

40-14-1. Definitions.

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

As used in this chapter, the term:
(1)
‘‘Campus’’ means the grounds owned or occupied by a college or university.#
(2)
‘‘Campus law enforcement agency’’ means the campus agency charged with the enforcement of the laws of this state.#
(3)
‘‘College or university’’ means an accredited public or private educational institution of higher learning.#
(4)
‘‘Speed detection device’’ means, unless otherwise indicated, that particular device designed to measure the speed or velocity of a motor vehicle and marketed under the name ‘‘Vascar’’ or any similar device operating under the same or similar principle and any devices for the measurement of speed or velocity based upon the Doppler principle of radar or the speed timing principle of laser. All such devices must meet or exceed the minimum performance specifications established by the Department of Public Safety.#

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

Ga. L. 1968, p. 425, § 3; Ga. L. 1970, p. 435, § 3; Ga. L. 1984, p. 502, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 586, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1281, §§ 4, 5.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1985, ‘‘principle’’ was substituted for ‘‘principal’’ preceding ‘‘of radar’’ in the first sentence of paragraph (4).

Law reviews

For review of 1996 use of radar speed detection devices legislation, see 13 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 244 (1996).

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