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2021 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road
Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 40-6-247. Following Fire Apparatus or Emergency Vehicle
Universal Citation: GA Code § 40-6-247 (2021)
The driver of any vehicle other than oneon official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm or any other emergency vehicle closer than200 feet and shall notpark such vehicle within 500 feet of any fire apparatus stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 99; Code 1933, § 68A-1109, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 7A Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 248.
C.J.S.- 60A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, §§ 872, 879.
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