2020 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road
Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 40-6-255. Driving Away Without Paying for Gasoline

Universal Citation: GA Code § 40-6-255 (2020)
  1. No person shall drive a motor vehicle so as to cause it to leave the premises of an establishment at which gasoline offered for retail sale was dispensed into the fuel tank of such motor vehicle unless due payment or authorized charge for the gasoline so dispensed has been made.
  2. Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $100.00 or by confinement in the county or other jail, county correctional institution, or such other places as counties may provide for maintenance of county inmates for a term not to exceed 60 days, or both.

(Code 1981, §40-6-255, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1658, § 2.)

Cross references.

- Suspension of driver's license for violation, § 40-5-57.2.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Fingerprinting.

- An offense under O.C.G.A. § 40-6-255 would be designated as one which requires fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 98-20.

ARTICLE 12 ACCIDENTS

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Liability for injuries due to collision between street car and automobile at street intersection, 28 A.L.R. 217; 46 A.L.R. 1000.

Constitutionality, construction, and effect of statute in relation to conduct of driver of automobile after happening on an accident, 66 A.L.R. 1228; 101 A.L.R. 911.

Liability for injury to pedestrian struck by automobile while walking along street or highway, 67 A.L.R. 96; 93 A.L.R. 551.

Duty toward travelers as regards condition of street or highway left as a result of an accident therein, 81 A.L.R. 1004.

Liability of person, other than owner of animal or owner or operator of motor vehicle, for damage to motor vehicle or injury to person riding therein resulting from collision with domestic animal at large in street or highway, 21 A.L.R.4th 132.

Liability of owner or operator of vehicle for damage to motor vehicle or injury to person riding therein resulting from collision with domestic animal at large in street or highway, 21 A.L.R.4th 159.

Fact that passenger in vehicle is owner as affecting right to recover from driver for injuries to, or death of, passenger incurred in consequence of driver's negligence, 21 A.L.R.4th 459.

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