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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 6. UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD · Article 8. SCHOOL BUSES

40-6-162. Use of visual signals.

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

  1. A school bus driver shall actuate the visual signals required by Code Sections 40-8-111 and 40-8-115 whenever, but only whenever, the school bus is stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children. A school bus driver shall not actuate the visual signals:

  2. (1)

    At intersections or other places where traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals or police officers; or#

  3. (2)

    In designated school bus loading areas where the bus is entirely off the roadway.#

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. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 89; Code 1933, § 68A-706, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 40; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.

Cross references

Code section not applicable to public transit systems transporting school children, § 40-8-114.

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

Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, pages 135 to 136; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.