Georgia legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia HB1342: Highways; procedures and remedies when a highway improvement project is delayed due to removal, relocation, or adjustment of utility facilities; provide
Status: In committee, February 18, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of maintenance and use of public road relative to public utilities in general, so as to provide for procedures and remedies when a highway improvement project is delayed due to the removal, relocation, or adjustment of utility facilities; to provide for damages; to repeal provisions relative to mediation boards; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To amend Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of maintenance and use of public road relative to public utilities in general, so as to provide for procedures and remedies when a highway improvement project is delayed due to the removal, relocation, or adjustment of utility facilities; to provide for damages; to repeal provisions relative to mediation boards; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED To amend Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of maintenance and use of public road relative to public utilities in general, so as to provide for procedures and remedies when a highway improvement project is delayed due to the removal, relocation, or adjustment of utility facilities; to provide for damages; to repeal provisions relative to mediation boards; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: SECTION 1. Part 1 of Article 6 of Chapter 6 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to regulation of maintenance and use of public road relative to public utilities in general, is amended by revising Code Section 32-6-171, relating to authority of department to order removal, relocation, or adjustment of utility facilities, as follows: "32-6-171. (a) Any utility using, occupying, or adjacent to any part of a public road which the department has undertaken to improve or intends to improve shall remove, relocate, or make the necessary adjustments to its facility when, in the reasonable opinion of the H. B. 1342 LC 39 4884 department, the facility constitutes an obstruction or interference with the use or …