2025 Code of Georgia
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic (Chs. 1 — 16)
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road (Arts. 1 — 15)
Article 10 - Stopping, Standing, and Parking (Pts. 1 — 2)
Annotations
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Article’s purpose. —The legislature, in making it a crime to park in specified areas or fashions by the road, enacted the law for the benefit of all persons who might meet or follow the parked vehicle, and the law’s purpose was to avoid collisions by persons coming from behind the parked vehicle and those meeting the parked vehicle. O'Pry v. Goodman, 132 Ga. App. 191, 207 S. E.2d 674, 1974 Ga. App. LEXIS 1643 (1974).
Research References & Practice Aids
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. Proof of Facts. —Feasibility of Stopping or Parking Vehicle off Roadway, 26 POF2d 575.
ALR.Lunch wagons in street, 4 A. L. R. 346.
Applicability of motor vehicle regulations to public officials or employees, 19 A. L. R. 459; 23 A. L. R. 418.
Validity of ordinance which denies to automobiles while used for hire the parking privileges extended to automobiles generally, 22 A. L. R. 113.
Right of abutting owner to control cab stands or parking in street, 33 A. L. R. 355.
Reciprocal duties of drivers of automobiles or other vehicles proceeding in the same direction, 62 A. L. R. 970; 104 A. L. R. 485.
Municipal establishment or operation of off-street public parking facilities, 8 A. L. R.2d 373.
When is motor vehicle “disabled” or the like within exception to statute regulating parking or stopping, 15 A. L. R.2d 909.
Inference or presumption that owner of motor vehicle was its driver at time of traffic, driving, or parking offense, 49 A. L. R.2d 456.
Liability of owner or driver of double-parked motor vehicle for ensuing injury, death, or damage, 82 A. L. R.2d 726.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 40
O. C. G. A. Title 40, Ch. 6
