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HB 309 - Highways; emergency call boxes; place along I-75

Mobley, Barbara J (69th)	Teague, Sharon Beasley (58th)	Ragas, Arnold M (64th)
Hegstrom, June (66th)	Taylor, Maretta M (134th)	Reed, Kasim (52nd)

Status Summary	HC:	Trans	SC:		FR:	01/28/99	LA:	01/29/99	H - Read 2nd Time

First Reader Summary

A BILL to amend Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state highway system, so as to provide for emergency motorist aid call boxes in certain areas along Interstate 75; and for other purposes.

Code Sections - 32-4-24

HB 309                                             LC 10 2686 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 
                               AN ACT 
 
 
  1- 1  To amend Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official 
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the state highway 
  1- 3  system, so as to provide for emergency motorist aid call 
  1- 4  boxes in certain areas along Interstate 75; to provide for 
  1- 5  legislative intent; to repeal conflicting laws; and for 
  1- 6  other purposes. 
 
  1- 7       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: 
 
  1- 8                           SECTION 1. 
 
  1- 9  Article 2 of Chapter 4 of Title 32 of the Official Code of 
  1-10  Georgia Annotated, relating to the state highway system, is 
  1-11  amended by adding at the end thereof a new Code Section 
  1-12  32-4-24 to read as follows: 
 
  1-13    "32-4-24. 
 
  1-14    (a) It is the intent of this Code section to protect the 
  1-15    public traveling on Interstate 75 by providing emergency 
  1-16    motorist aid call boxes in those areas along such 
  1-17    interstate highway where commercial establishments are not 
  1-18    accessible. 
 
  1-19    (b) The department shall place emergency motorist aid call 
  1-20    boxes at one-mile intervals along both the easterly and 
  1-21    westerly shoulders of Interstate 75 between the 
  1-22    Florida-Georgia border and the Tennessee-Georgia border; 
  1-23    provided, however, that the placement of such call boxes 
  1-24    shall not be necessary within the boundaries of any 
  1-25    municipal corporation, within one mile of a rest area 
  1-26    which has telephone service available to the traveling 
  1-27    public, or within one mile of an entrance or exit ramp 
  1-28    from the interstate to another highway or road at which 
  1-29    general location telephone service is available to the 
  1-30    traveling public." 
 
  1-31                           SECTION 2. 
 
  1-32  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are 
  1-33  repealed. 
 
 
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