Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 6. UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD · Article 11. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

40-6-240. Backing.

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(a)
A driver shall not back a vehicle unless such movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic.#
(b)
A driver of a vehicle shall not back a vehicle upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access highway.#

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, § 94; Code 1933, § 68A-1102, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.

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