2021 Georgia Code
Title 32 - Highways, Bridges, and Ferries
Chapter 4 - State, County, and Municipal Road Systems
Article 2 - State Highway System
§ 32-4-20. Composition of State Highway System
The state highway system shall consist of an integrated network of arterials and of other public roads or bypasses serving as the major collectors therefor. No public road shall be designated as a part of the state highway system unless it meets at least one of the following requirements:
- Serves trips of substantial length and duration indicative of regional, state-wide, or interstate importance;
- Connects adjoining county seats;
- Connects urban or regional areas with outlying areas, both intrastate and interstate; or
- Serves as part of the principal collector network for the state-wide and interstate arterial public road system.
(Code 1933, § 95A-202, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 947, § 1; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1343, § 5/HB 817; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1072, § 1/SB 169.)
Cross references.- Giving of notice of intention to condemn road constituting part of state highway system for purpose of constructing electric power plant, § 22-3-42.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Road not part of state highway system.
- Trial court did not err in granting the Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) summary judgment in a driver's action alleging that the department negligently maintained a dirt road because the road was not a part of the state highway system since the road did not meet any of the four requirements of O.C.G.A. § 32-4-20, and the DOT had no duty to maintain the road; the dirt road was a dead-end loop that led back to a county road and was part of a right-of-way that was fenced off from the travel lanes of an interstate, and at some point before the incident, access to the road had been restricted by a gate. Barrett v. Ga. DOT, 304 Ga. App. 667, 697 S.E.2d 217, cert. denied, No. S10C1813, 2010 Ga. LEXIS 918 (Ga. 2010).
