2025 Georgia Codes – Page 144

Amended 2024
(a) Any person who knowingly promotes or organizes an exhibition of illegal drag racing, in violation of
Code Section 40-6-186, or of laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor of a high and aggravated nature.
(b) Any person who is knowingly present and actively facilitating an exhibition of illegal drag racing, in
violation of Code Section 40-6-186, or of laying drags, in violation of Code Section 40-6-251, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $250.00. For purposes of this
subsection, active facilitation may be evidenced by using a vehicle to block the portion of the roadway
closest to exhibition participants allowing the event to take place.

A person who keeps and maintains, either by himself or others, a common, ill-governed, and disorderly
house, to the encouragement of gaming, drinking, or other misbehavior, or to the common disturbance of the
neighborhood or orderly citizens, is guilty of a misdemeanor.