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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 3. ELECTRICAL SERVICE · Article 1. GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY GENERALLY · Part 2. HIGH VOLTAGE SAFETY

46-3-33. Required conditions for commencing work within ten feet of high voltage line.

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

  1. No person, firm, or corporation shall commence any work if at any time any person or any item specified in paragraph (6) of Code Section 46-3-32 may be brought within ten feet of any high voltage line unless and until:

  2. (1)

    The person responsible for the work has given the notice required by Code Section 46-3-34; and#

  3. (2)

    The owner or operator of such high voltage line has effectively guarded against danger from accidental contact by either deenergizing and grounding the line, relocating it, or installing protective covering or mechanical barriers, whichever safeguard is deemed by the owner or operator to be feasible under the circumstances.#

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

Code 1981, § 46-3-33, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2141, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 359, § 3-5(4)/SB 125, effective July 1, 2025; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(11)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The first 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, substituted “high voltage” for “high-voltage” in the introductory paragraph and in paragraph (2). The second 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “as defined in paragraph (6) of Code Section 46-3-32” following “work” in the introductory paragraph.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1992, p. 2141, § 1, redesignated former Code Section 46-3-33 as present Code Section 46-3-34.

Law reviews

For survey article on construction law, see 59 Mercer L. Rev. 55 (2007). For survey article on local government law, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 263 (2008).

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

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

Text read from t46-(v34)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V34, 2025 edition, page 173; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 53ab60ae5027.