2025 Georgia Codes – Page 375

(a) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer manufactured prior to January 1, 1954, shall be
equipped with at least one taillight mounted on the rear, which when lighted as required in this article shall
emit a red light plainly visible from a distance of 500 feet to the rear.
(b) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer manufactured after January 1, 1954, shall be
equipped with two taillights which meet the specifications provided in this Code section.
(c) Every taillight upon every vehicle shall be located at a height of not more than 60 inches nor less than 20
inches, to be measured as set forth in subsection (b) of Code Section 40-8-21.
(d) Either a taillight or a separate light shall be so constructed and placed as to illuminate with a white light
the rear registration plate and render it clearly legible from a distance of 50 feet to the rear. Any taillight or
taillights, together with any separate light for illuminating the rear registration plate, shall be so wired as to
be lighted whenever the headlights or auxiliary driving lights are lighted.
(e) All lenses on taillights shall be maintained in good repair and shall meet manufacturers’ specifications.

(a) Every motor vehicle manufactured after March 12, 1954, and operated upon a highway, other than a truck
tractor, motorcycle, or motor driven cycle, shall carry on the rear, either as a part of the taillights or separate-
ly, two red reflectors, and every motorcycle and every motor driven cycle shall carry on the rear at least one
red reflector, meeting the requirements of this Code section.
(b) Every such reflector shall be mounted on the vehicle at a height not less than 20 inches nor more than 60
inches measured as set forth in subsection (b) of Code Section 40-8-21 and shall be of such size and charac-
teristics and so mounted as to be visible at night from all distances within 300 feet to 50 feet from the rear
of such vehicle except that visibility from the greater distance is hereinafter required of reflectors on certain
types of vehicles.
(c) When operated, towed, or parked upon a highway, roadway, or street at any time, every trailer and semi-
trailer which would otherwise be exempt from this article as an implement of husbandry under Code Section