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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-6-75. Highway construction and maintenance personnel and vehicles.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-6-75. Highway construction and maintenance personnel and vehicles.

(a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to any authorized vehicle or pedestrian actually engaged in work upon a highway within any highway construction or maintenance area indicated by official traffic-control devices.

(b) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way to an authorized vehicle actually engaged in work upon a highway whenever such vehicle displays flashing or revolving amber lights and has a permit to use such amber lights.

## History

Code 1933, § 68A-406, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.