2025 Georgia Codes – Page 367

No vehicle or load any portion of which drags or slides on the surface of the roadway shall be used or trans-
ported on the highways. No vehicle shall be used or transported on the highways the wheels of which, while
being used or transported, either from construction or otherwise, cause pounding on the road surface.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate upon the public roads of this state any slow-moving vehicle
or equipment, any farm trailer or semitrailer which is used for agricultural purposes and which would oth-
erwise be exempt from this article as an implement of husbandry under Code Section 40-8-1, any animal
drawn vehicle, or any machinery designed for use and generally operated at speeds less than 25 miles per
hour, including all road construction or maintenance equipment and machinery except when engaged in
actual construction or maintenance procedures and all other construction equipment and machinery, unless
there is displayed on the rear thereof an emblem which shall comply with subsection (b) of this Code sec-
tion or an amber strobe light operated in compliance with Code Section 40-8-35. It shall also be unlawful to
operate upon the public roads of this state without such an emblem any three-wheeled motorcycle used only
for agricultural purposes unless such three-wheeled motorcycle is licensed as required by Chapter 2 of this
title and is in compliance with all other requirements of this chapter.
(b) The emblem required by subsection (a) of this Code section shall conform with those standards and speci-
fications adopted for slow-moving vehicles by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in December,
1966, and contained within such society’s standard ASAE S276.1, or shall be an emblem of the same shape
and size painted on such vehicle in a bright and conspicuous retroreflective red orange paint. Such emblem
shall be mounted on the rear of such vehicles, in the approximate horizontal geometric center of the vehicle,
at a height of three to five feet above the roadway, and shall be maintained at all times in a clean and reflec-
tive condition.
(c) Any person violating this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(d) Nothing in this Code section shall apply to any self-propelled, two-wheeled vehicle.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to tamper with, adjust, alter, change, set back, disconnect,
or fail to connect an odometer of a motor vehicle, or to cause any of the foregoing to occur to an odometer
of a motor vehicle, so as to reflect a lower mileage than the motor vehicle has actually been driven, except as
provided in this Code section.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to bring into this state a motor vehicle which reflects a
lower mileage than the motor vehicle actually has been driven due to any illegal acts outlined in subsection
(a) of this Code section.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to sell or attempt to sell a motor vehicle which reflects a
lower mileage than the motor vehicle actually has been driven due to any illegal acts outlined in subsection
(a) of this Code section.
(d) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this Code section shall not apply to the disconnection of the odometer used
for registering the mileage or use of new motor vehicles being tested by the manufacturer prior to delivery to
a franchised dealer.
(e) It shall be unlawful for any person to advertise for sale, to sell, to use, to install, or to have installed any
device which causes an odometer to register any mileage other than the actual mileage driven. For the pur-
poses of this subsection, the actual mileage driven is that mileage driven by the vehicle as registered by the
odometer within the manufacturer’s designed tolerance.
(f) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire with any other person to violate this Code section.
(g)(1) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, any person who, with intent to defraud, violates this
Code section shall be liable in an amount equal to the sum of:
(A) Three times the amount of actual damages sustained or $1,500.00, whichever is greater; and
(B) In the case of any successful action to enforce the foregoing liability, the costs of the action, together
with reasonable attorney’s fees, as determined by the court.
(2) Any action to enforce any liability created under this subsection may be brought in any superior court or
state court having proper jurisdiction, within two years from the date on which the liability arises.
(h)(1) If any person violates any provision of this Code section, the Attorney General, any district attorney in
this state, or any solicitor-general in this state may bring an action in any superior court or state court hav-
ing jurisdiction to restrain such violation.
(2) Any action arising under paragraph (1) of this subsection may be brought within two years from the date
of the violation.
(i) Any person violating this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.