2022 Georgia Code
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 11 - Offenses Against Public Order and Safety
Article 2 - Offenses Against Public Order
§ 16-11-43. Obstructing Highways, Streets, Sidewalks, or Other Public Passages

A person who, without authority of law, purposely or recklessly obstructs any highway, street, sidewalk, or other public passage in such a way as to render it impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard and fails or refuses to remove the obstruction after receiving a reasonable official request or the order of a peace officer that he do so, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

History. Laws 1818, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 949; Ga. L. 1859, p. 65, § 1; Code 1863, § 4481; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 2; Code 1868, § 4527; Code 1873, § 4617; Code 1882, § 4617; Penal Code 1895, § 715; Penal Code 1910, § 766; Code 1933, § 26-8106; Code 1933, § 26-2611, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1.

Cross references.

Further provisions regarding obstruction of public roads, § 32-6-1 .

Authorization of security personnel to deny entrance and remove persons from state property, § 50-16-14 .

Administrative rules and regulations.

Powers and procedures for enforcement of highway obstruction laws, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, State Department of Transportation, § 672-4-.06.