Section 40-6-51. Further restrictions on use of controlled-access roadways

   (a) The Department of Transportation by order and local authorities by ordinance may regulate or prohibit the use of any controlled-access roadway within their respective jurisdictions by any class or kind of traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of traffic.

(b) The Department of Transportation or the local authority adopting any such prohibition shall erect and maintain official traffic-control devices on the controlled-access highway on which such prohibitions are applicable, and when such devices are in place no person shall disobey the restrictions stated thereon.

(c) For purposes of this Code section, roadways within the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation and roadways within the jurisdiction of local authorities shall be as set forth in Code Section 32-4-1.

Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 556, § 65; Ga. L. 1963, p. 254, § 3; Code 1933, § 68A-313, enacted by Ga. L. 1974, p. 633, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-6-52; Code 1981, § 40-6-51, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5.