Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 8. EQUIPMENT AND INSPECTION OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 1. EQUIPMENT GENERALLY · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

40-8-3. Vehicle or load dragging on highway; wheels causing pounding on road surface.

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No vehicle or load any portion of which drags or slides on the surface of the roadway shall be used or transported on the highways. No vehicle shall be used or transported on the highways the wheels of which, while being used or transported, either from construction or otherwise, cause pounding on the road surface.

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. 1927, p. 226, § 17; Code 1933, § 68-404; Ga. L. 1970, p. 628, § 1; Code 1933, § 68E-103, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 165, § 4; Code 1981, § 40-8-3, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 165, § 10.

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Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, page 466; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.

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