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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 8. EQUIPMENT AND INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 1. EQUIPMENT GENERALLY · Part 6. EQUIPMENT OF SCHOOL BUSES

40-8-116. Unlawful acts.

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

  1. It shall be unlawful to operate:

  2. (1)

    Any vehicle displaying the words ‘‘SCHOOL BUS’’ unless it meets the color, identification, and equipment requirements set forth in Code Section 40-8-113 or 40-8-115;#

  3. (2)

    A vehicle without the words ‘‘SCHOOL BUS’’ but which is of a color and exhibits some equipment or identification which reasonably could cause a motorist to confuse it with a properly colored, identified, and equipped school bus;#

  4. (3)

    Any school bus for any purpose other than the transportation of school children to or from school or school activities without concealing or covering all markings thereon indicating ‘‘SCHOOL BUS’’; or#

  5. (4)

    A vehicle which has been permanently converted from the purpose of transporting students to or from school or school activities without first having painted such vehicle some color other than the yellow required in subsection (b) of Code Section 40-8-110 and without having removed the stop arms, if any, and any other equipment required by Code Section 40-8-111.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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. 1974, p. 633, § 1.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 534; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.