Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 5. DRIVERS’ LICENSES · Article 7. COMMERCIAL DRIVERS’ LICENSES

40-5-145. Duties of employer.

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

(a)
Each employer shall require every commercial motor vehicle driver applicant to provide the information specified in subsection (d) of Code Section 40-5-144.#
(b)
No employer may knowingly allow, require, permit, or authorize a driver to drive a commercial motor vehicle during any period:#
1. (1)
  In which the driver has a driver’s license suspended, revoked, or canceled by a state; has lost the privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle in a state; or has been disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle;#
2. (2)
  In which the driver has more than one driver’s license;#
3. (3)
  In which the driver, or the commercial motor vehicle that he or she is driving, or the motor carrier operation, is subject to an out of service order; or#
4. (4)
  In violation of a federal, state, or local law or regulation pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings.#

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 1981, § 40-5-145, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 519, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 4; Ga. L. 2003, p. 484, § 4.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2003, a misspelling of “subject” was corrected in paragraph (b)(3).

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