---
title: O.C.G.A. § 40-8-25. Brake lights and turn signals required.
collection: code
id: 40-8-25
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 40-8-25 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8-25
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8-25.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8-25/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=97c394d6_0#page=485
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8-24.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-8-26.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC / EQUIPMENT AND INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES / EQUIPMENT GENERALLY / LIGHTING EQUIPMENT
---

# O.C.G.A. § 40-8-25. Brake lights and turn signals required.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to sell any motor vehicle manufactured after January 1, 1954, including any motorcycle or motor driven cycle manufactured after January 1, 1954, in this state or for any person to drive such vehicle on the highways unless it is equipped with at least one brake light meeting the requirements of Code Section 40-8-26.

(b) If a motor vehicle is manufactured with two brake lights, both must be operational.

(c) No person shall sell or offer for sale or operate on the highways any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer registered in this state and manufactured or assembled after January 1, 1954, unless it is equipped with mechanical or electrical turn signals meeting the requirements of Code Section 40-8-26. This subsection shall not apply to any motorcycle or motor driven cycle manufactured prior to January 1, 1972.

## History

Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 108; Code 1933, § 68E-206, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 165, § 4; Code 1981, § 40-8-25, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 165, § 10.

## Cross References

Provisions regarding turn signals as required equipment on vehicles, § 40-6-124.

## Code Commission Notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1991, ‘‘motor driven’’ was substituted for ‘‘motor-driven’’ in subsections (a) and (c).