2022 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 6 - Uniform Rules of the Road
Article 9 - Speed Restrictions
§ 40-6-183. Alteration of Speed Limits by Local Authorities

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1. Whenever the governing authority of an incorporated municipality or county, in its respective jurisdiction, determines on the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that the maximum vehicle speed permitted under this chapter is greater than is reasonable and safe under the conditions found to exist upon a highway or part of a highway under its jurisdiction, such authority may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum vehicle speed limit thereon which:
   1. Decreases the limit at intersections;
   2. Decreases the limit outside an urban or residential district, but not to less than 30 miles per hour;
   3. Decreases the limit within an urban or residential district, but not to less than 25 miles per hour; or
   4. Decreases any speed limit where a special hazard or condition exists that requires lower speed for compliance with Code Section 40-6-180.

   History. Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 50; Code 1933, § 68A-804, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1582, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1967, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.

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