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Home » US Law » 2022 Georgia Code » Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic » Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road » Article 7 - Negotiating Railroad Crossings, Entering Highways From Private Driveways

§ 40-6-140. Approaching and Travel Over Railroad Grade Crossing

As used in this Code section, the term “other on-track equipment” means any car, rolling stock, or other device that, alone or coupled to another device, is operated on stationary rails. Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing, such driver shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet […]

§ 40-6-141. Erection and Observance of Stop Signs at Railroad Grade Crossings

The Department of Transportation and local authorities with the approval of the department are authorized to designate particularly dangerous highway grade crossings of railroads and to erect stop signs thereat. When such stop signs are erected, the driver of any vehicle shall stop within 50 feet but not less than 15 feet from the nearest […]

§ 40-6-142. Certain Vehicles to Stop at All Railroad Crossings

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, the driver of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, any bus, whether or not operated for hire, or of any school bus, whether carrying any school children or empty, or of any vehicle carrying any hazardous material listed in Section 392.10 of Title 49 […]

§ 40-6-143. Moving Heavy Equipment at Railroad Grade Crossings

No person shall operate or move a crawler-type tractor, steam shovel, derrick, roller, or any equipment or structure having a normal operating speed of ten miles per hour or less or a vertical body or load clearance of less than one-half inch per foot of the distance between any two adjacent axles or in any […]