Georgia Code
Article 8 - School Buses
§ 40-6-163. Duty of Driver of Vehicle Meeting or Overtaking School Bus; Reporting of Violations; Civil Monetary Penalty for Violations Captured by School Bus Camera

History. Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 89; Code 1933, § 68A-706, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1175, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 819, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5; Ga. L. 2011, p. 257, § 1/SB 57; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1057, § 1/HB 978; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1, § 1/SB 25; Ga. L. 2019, p. 1056, § 40/SB 52; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 40/SB 429.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, in the middle of subsection (b), inserted “or a divided highway, including, but not limited to, a highway divided by a turn lane,”, inserted “or on another half of a divided highway”, and substituted “controlled access” for “controlled-access”; and rewrote subsection (d).
The 2019 amendments.
The first 2019 amendment, effective February 15, 2019, in subsection (b), substituted “that are separated by a grass median, unpaved area, or physical barrier” for “or a divided highway, including, but not limited to, a highway divided by a turn lane,” near the beginning and substituted “on the separate roadway” for “on a different roadway or on another half of a divided highway,” near the middle. See Editor’s notes for applicability. The second 2019 amendment, effective May 12, 2019, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph” for “in subparagraph (d)(3)(B) of this Code Section” in subparagraph (d)(3)(A); substituted “subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of this subsection” for “subparagraph (B) of this paragraph”; in paragraph (d)(6); substituted “of subsection (c) of this Code section” for “of subsection (c) of Code Section 40-6-163” in paragraph (d)(14); and substituted “subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3) of this subsection” for “subparagraph (d)(3)(B) of this Code section” in paragraph (d)(15).
The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “entity that” for “entity who” in subparagraph (d)(1)(A); and substituted “data base” for “database” in the first sentence of paragraph (d)(9).
Cross references.
Code section not applicable to public transit systems transporting school children, § 40-8-114 .
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2019, p. 1, § 2/SB 25, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “Any violation of subsection (b) of Code Section 40-6-163 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated shall be adjudicated and punished based upon such subsection as it existed at the time the violation was committed.

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