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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 4. MOPEDS

40-6-352. Protective headgear.

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

  1. (a)

    No person shall operate or ride as a passenger upon a moped unless he or she is wearing protective headgear which complies with standards established by the commissioner of public safety. The commissioner in determining such standards shall consider the size, speed, and operational characteristics of the moped. Such standards need not necessarily be the same as for motorcyclists; however, any moped operator wearing an approved motorcycle helmet shall be deemed in compliance with this subsection.#

  2. (b)

    The commissioner of public safety is authorized to approve or disapprove protective headgear for moped operators and to issue and enforce regulations establishing standards and specifications for the approval thereof. He or she shall publish in print or electronically lists by name and type of all protective headgear which have been approved by him or her.#

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 1933, § 68A-1112, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 2241, § 5; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5; Ga. L. 1996, p. 236, § 4; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5A-10; Ga. L. 2005, p. 334, § 18-14/HB 501; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388; Ga. L. 2019, p. 264, § 6/HB 454.

Amendments

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, deleted the former last sentence in subsection (a), which read: “Operators of electric assisted bicycles may wear a properly fitted and fastened bicycle helmet which meets the standards of the American National Standards Institute or the Snell Memorial Foundation’s Standards for Protective Headgear for Use in Bicycling, rather than a motorcycle helmet.”

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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 51; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 6fa67a38989e.