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2022 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road
Article 4 - Right of Way
§ 40-6-71. Yield When Turning Left
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GA Code § 40-6-71 (2022)
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The driver of a vehicle intending to turn to the left within an intersection or into an alley, private road, or driveway shall yield the right of way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard.
History. Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 73; Code 1933, § 68A-402, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.
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