2025 Code of Georgia
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic (Chs. 1 — 16)
Chapter 14 - Use of Speed Detection Devices and Red Light Cameras (Arts. 1 — 3)
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Record keeping. —Records of Department of Public Safety kept to be used in speeding cases in which radar speed determinations were to be introduced in evidence were records made in the regular course of business within the meaning of former O. C. G. A. § 24-3-14 (see now O. C. G. A. § 24-8-803). Wiggins v. State, 249 Ga. 302, 290 S. E.2d 427, 1982 Ga. LEXIS 813 (1982).
Opinion Notes
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Application of chapter to counties and municipalities. —Ga. L. 1968, p. 425 (see now O. C. G. A. Ch. 14, T. 40) is intended to apply to the law enforcement officers of counties and municipalities. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-10.
Ga. L. 1968, p. 425 (see now O. C. G. A. Ch. 14, T. 40) places no restrictions on the use of Vascar and radar by the Department of Public Safety. 1975 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 75-10.
Ga. L. 1968, p. 425 (see now O. C. G. A. Ch. 14, T. 40) does not cover any operation of timing devices by the Department of Public Safety, but rather is limited to governing the manner in which county and municipal law enforcement officers may employ radar and Vascar. 1975 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 75-10.
Research References & Practice Aids
Administrative rules and regulations.Speed detection devices, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Public Safety, Chapter 570-7.
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Presumption and burden of proof of accuracy of scientific and mechanical instruments for measuring speed, temperature, time, and the like, 21 A. L. R.2d 1200.
Automobiles: speeding prosecution based on observation from aircraft, 27 A. L. R.3d 1446.
Possession or operation of device for detecting or avoiding traffic radar as criminal offense, 17 A. L. R.4th 1334.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 40
