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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 6. UNIFORM RULES OF THE ROAD · Article 3. DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY, OVERTAKING AND PASSING, FOLLOWING TOO CLOSELY

40-6-43. When overtaking and passing on the right permitted.

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

  1. (a)

    The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass upon the right of another vehicle only under the following conditions:#

    1. (1)

      When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to make a left turn; or#

    2. (2)

      Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement of sufficient width for two or more lanes of moving vehicles in the direction being traveled by the overtaking vehicle.#

  2. (b)

    If otherwise authorized, the driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting such movement in safety. Such movement shall not be made by driving 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, § 58; Code 1933, § 68A-304, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.

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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, page 71; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.