Official Code of Georgia Annotated
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
40-6-45. Further limitations on driving on left of center of roadway.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
No vehicle shall be driven on the left side of a roadway designed and authorized for traffic traveling in opposite directions under the following conditions:#
- (1)
When approaching or upon the crest of a grade or a curve in the highway where the driver’s view is obstructed within such distance as to create a hazard in the event another vehicle might approach from the opposite direction;#
- (3)
When the view is obstructed upon approaching within 100 feet of any bridge, viaduct, or tunnel.#
- (b)
The foregoing limitations shall not apply upon a one-way roadway nor under the conditions described in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-6-40 nor to the driver of a vehicle turning left into or from an alley, private road, driveway, or roadway.#
History
Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 59; Code 1933, § 68A-306, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1313, § 3.
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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 73; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.