OCGA § 32-1-3 Definitions

• Library: Code of Georgia
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023-2024 Legislative Session Chapter 353 and 2023 Special Session Chapter 5
• Year: 2023
• Citation: OCGA § 32-1-3

As used in this title, the term:

(1) "Abandon" means to close permanently to public travel or to relinquish jurisdiction of a preexisting public road by official action as required by Chapter 7 of this title, thereby foreclosing the duty of future maintenance on such preexisting public road.

(2) "Board" means the State Transportation Board.

(3) "Borrow pit" means land from which dirt, gravel, rock, or related material will be excavated and used for a public road purpose. Such land need not be immediately adjacent or contiguous to the road or project under construction, repair, or reconstruction.

(4) "Bridge" means a structure, including the approaches thereto, erected in order:

(A) To afford unrestricted vehicular passage over any obstruction in any public road, including, but not limited to, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes, bays, ravines, gullies, railroads, public highways, and canals; or

(B) To afford unrestricted vehicular passage under or over existing railroads and public roads.

(5) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of transportation.

(6) "Construction" means the planning, location, surveying, designing, supervising, inspecting, and actual building of a new road; or the paving, striping, restriping, modifying for safety purposes, grading, widening, relocation, reconstruction, or other major improvement of a substantial portion of an existing public road together with all activities incident to any of the foregoing.

(7) "County" means either one of the several counties, any division, department, agency, authority, instrumentality, or branch thereof, or the county governing authority, that is, the judge of the probate court, board of county commissioners, county commissioner, or other county officers in charge of the roads, bridges, and revenues of the county.

(8) "Dedication" means the donation by the owner, either expressly or impliedly, and acceptance by the public of property for public road purposes, in accordance with statutory or common-law provisions.

(9) "Department" means the Department of Transportation.

(10) "Federal-aid systems" means those public roads in Georgia comprised of The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways and the National Highway System, as those terms are defined in Section 103 of Title 23 of the United States Code.

(11) "Grade crossing" means a crossing at grade of a public road intersecting a track or tracks of a railroad.

(12) "Grade separation structure" means an underpass or overpass as defined in this Code section.