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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-6-247. Following fire apparatus or emergency vehicle.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-6-247. Following fire apparatus or emergency vehicle.

The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm or any other emergency vehicle closer than 200 feet and shall not park such vehicle within 500 feet of any fire apparatus stopped in answer to a fire alarm.

## History

Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 99; Code 1933, § 68A-1109, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.