MOTOR VEHICLE LAW GPSTC STUDY GUIDE 2025
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔park or parking - ✔✔The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
property or passengers
✔✔Passenger car - ✔✔Every motor vehicle, except all-terrain vehicles, motor driven
cycles, multipurpose off-highway vehicles, personal transportation vehicles, and low
speed vehicles, designed for carrying 10 passengers or less and used for the
transportation of persons
✔✔Pedestrian - ✔✔Any person afoot
✔✔Private road way or driveway - ✔✔Every way or place in private ownership and used
for vehicular traffic by the owner and those having express or implied permission from
the owner, but not by other persons
✔✔Railroad - ✔✔A carrier of persons or property upon car operated upon stationary
rails
✔✔Railroad sign or signal - ✔✔Any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a
public body or official or by railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of
railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train
✔✔Right of way - ✔✔The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful
manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian
✔✔Roadway - ✔✔Portion of a Highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for
vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
✔✔School bus - ✔✔Motor vehicle operated for the transportation of school children to
and from school activities, to and from church
✔✔Stop or stopping - ✔✔Complete cessation from movement; means halting, even
momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not
✔✔Street - ✔✔The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of
vehicular travel
✔✔Traffic - ✔✔Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances
either singly or together while using any highway
, ✔✔Traffic-control signal - ✔✔Any device, whether manually, electrically, or
mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to
proceed
✔✔Vehicle - ✔✔Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be
transported or drawn upon a highway, exceptions devices used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks
✔✔How horsepower determined - ✔✔The society of automotive engineers horsepower
rating formula is adopted as the standard for determining the horsepower of passenger-
carrying vehicles
✔✔Attachment of stickers, decals, etc - ✔✔No persons owning, operating, or using a
motor vehicle in the state shall knowingly affix or attach to any part of such vehicle any
sticker, decal, emblem, containing profane or lewd words
✔✔Uniform of law enforcement officers assigned to traffic law enforcement or special
activities - ✔✔Uniformed law enforcement officers of any agency who are assigned
routinely or primarily to traffic law enforcement or other traffic safety duties shall wear
the same type of uniform as other members of the assigned division
✔✔Resident - ✔✔A person who has a permanent home or domicile in GA and the
which, having been absent, he/she has the intention of returning; present in the state for
30 or more days
✔✔Covering plate; penalty - ✔✔Willfully covers any license plate with plastic, other
material, or any part of his or her body in order to prevent or impede the ability of
surveillance; misdemeanor and $1,000 fine or less.
✔✔Operating motor vehicle w/out registration or valid license plate - ✔✔Misdemeanor,
provided that a person shall register motor vehicle within 30 days after becoming a
resident of this state.
✔✔Revalidation decal affixed to license plate - ✔✔A person who operates a vehicle
which is required to be registered in this state and which has attached to the rear
thereof a valid numbered license plate w/out having the required revalidation decal
affixed upon that plate
✔✔Provisions relative to county name decals - ✔✔County name decal; in god we trust
✔✔Registration & License of motor vehicles; exceptions - ✔✔Owner of a motor vehicle,
including a tractor or motorcycle, and every owner of a trailer shall, during the owner's
registration period in each year, register such vehicle as provided in this chapter; no
springs
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔park or parking - ✔✔The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading
property or passengers
✔✔Passenger car - ✔✔Every motor vehicle, except all-terrain vehicles, motor driven
cycles, multipurpose off-highway vehicles, personal transportation vehicles, and low
speed vehicles, designed for carrying 10 passengers or less and used for the
transportation of persons
✔✔Pedestrian - ✔✔Any person afoot
✔✔Private road way or driveway - ✔✔Every way or place in private ownership and used
for vehicular traffic by the owner and those having express or implied permission from
the owner, but not by other persons
✔✔Railroad - ✔✔A carrier of persons or property upon car operated upon stationary
rails
✔✔Railroad sign or signal - ✔✔Any sign, signal, or device erected by authority of a
public body or official or by railroad and intended to give notice of the presence of
railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train
✔✔Right of way - ✔✔The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful
manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian
✔✔Roadway - ✔✔Portion of a Highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for
vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder.
✔✔School bus - ✔✔Motor vehicle operated for the transportation of school children to
and from school activities, to and from church
✔✔Stop or stopping - ✔✔Complete cessation from movement; means halting, even
momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not
✔✔Street - ✔✔The entire width between boundary lines of every way publicly
maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of
vehicular travel
✔✔Traffic - ✔✔Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances
either singly or together while using any highway
, ✔✔Traffic-control signal - ✔✔Any device, whether manually, electrically, or
mechanically operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to
proceed
✔✔Vehicle - ✔✔Every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be
transported or drawn upon a highway, exceptions devices used exclusively upon
stationary rails or tracks
✔✔How horsepower determined - ✔✔The society of automotive engineers horsepower
rating formula is adopted as the standard for determining the horsepower of passenger-
carrying vehicles
✔✔Attachment of stickers, decals, etc - ✔✔No persons owning, operating, or using a
motor vehicle in the state shall knowingly affix or attach to any part of such vehicle any
sticker, decal, emblem, containing profane or lewd words
✔✔Uniform of law enforcement officers assigned to traffic law enforcement or special
activities - ✔✔Uniformed law enforcement officers of any agency who are assigned
routinely or primarily to traffic law enforcement or other traffic safety duties shall wear
the same type of uniform as other members of the assigned division
✔✔Resident - ✔✔A person who has a permanent home or domicile in GA and the
which, having been absent, he/she has the intention of returning; present in the state for
30 or more days
✔✔Covering plate; penalty - ✔✔Willfully covers any license plate with plastic, other
material, or any part of his or her body in order to prevent or impede the ability of
surveillance; misdemeanor and $1,000 fine or less.
✔✔Operating motor vehicle w/out registration or valid license plate - ✔✔Misdemeanor,
provided that a person shall register motor vehicle within 30 days after becoming a
resident of this state.
✔✔Revalidation decal affixed to license plate - ✔✔A person who operates a vehicle
which is required to be registered in this state and which has attached to the rear
thereof a valid numbered license plate w/out having the required revalidation decal
affixed upon that plate
✔✔Provisions relative to county name decals - ✔✔County name decal; in god we trust
✔✔Registration & License of motor vehicles; exceptions - ✔✔Owner of a motor vehicle,
including a tractor or motorcycle, and every owner of a trailer shall, during the owner's
registration period in each year, register such vehicle as provided in this chapter; no
springs
