Georgia § 40-6-274 - Exemption from duty to stop at scene or report accident.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 40-6-274 — Exemption from duty to stop at scene or report accident., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 40-6-274. Exemption from duty to stop at scene or report accident.
Any other provision of this article or any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the driver of any vehicle involved in a traffic accident in which there is no personal injury or in which no second party and no property of a second party is involved shall not have the duty to stop or immediately report such accident, and no such driver shall be prosecuted for his failure to stop or immediately to report such accident. This Code section shall not abrogate or affect a driver's duty to file any written report which may be required by the local law enforcement agency. (Ga. L. 1972, p. 819, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-6-275 ; Code 1981, § 40-6-274 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 5; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 40.)
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