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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-8-10. Operation of motor vehicles with nitrous oxide; penalty for violation.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-8-10. Operation of motor vehicles with nitrous oxide; penalty for violation.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person on a public road to drive a passenger car, excluding a motor home, which supplies the motor vehicle’s combustion engine with nitrous oxide unless the system supplying nitrous oxide is made inoperative by disconnecting the line feeding nitrous oxide to the engine or by removing the container or containers of nitrous oxide from the vehicle.

(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

## History

Code 1981, § 40-8-10, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1080, § 1.