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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 6. UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD · Article 13. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR CERTAIN VEHICLES · Part 2A. ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICES AND PERSONAL DELIVERY DEVICES

40-6-323. Parking.

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

  1. (a)

    An electric personal assistive mobility device or a personal delivery device may be parked on a sidewalk unless otherwise prohibited or restricted by an official traffic control device or local ordinance; provided, however, that in no case shall an electric personal assistive mobility device be parked on any sidewalk in such a manner as to prevent the movement of a wheelchair.#

  2. (b)

    An electric personal assistive mobility device or a personal delivery device shall not be parked on any roadway in such a manner as to prevent the movement of a legally parked motor vehicle.#

  3. (c)

    Except as otherwise provided in this Code section, a personal delivery device operator or any person operating an electric personal assistive mobility device shall be subject to the same parking restrictions as provided for motor vehicles under Part 1 of Article 10 of this chapter. All violations of parking restrictions shall be the responsibility of a personal delivery device owner or the owner of an electric personal assistive mobility device; and, for purposes of parking restrictions, the owner of an electric personal assistive mobility device and a personal delivery device owner shall be deemed to be in control of the device at the time of a parking violation involving such device, and no evidence of actual control by such owner need be proven as an element of the offense.#

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, § 40-6-323, enacted by Ga. L. 2003, p. 308, § 4; Ga. L. 2022, p. 543, § 2/HB 1009.

Amendments

The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, inserted “or a personal delivery device” in subsections (a) and (b); and, in subsection (c), inserted “a personal delivery device operator or” in the first sentence and rewrote the second sentence.

Law reviews

For article, “HB 1009: Remote Operation of Personal Delivery Devices,” see 39 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 211 (2022).

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

Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, 2025 supplement, page 45; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 6fa67a38989e.