Gudauri, Georgia · Heavy vehicle ban
Official name დუშეთის მუნიციპალიტეტის ტერიტორიაზე, ადგილობრივი მნიშვნელობის ზოგიერთ საავტომობილო გზაზე მოძრაობის ორგანიზების შესახებ
Gudauri is Georgia's main ski resort, on the Georgian Military Highway over the Cross Pass, and through the ski season its local access roads are closed to goods vehicles from Friday morning to Monday morning.
The rule is decree №28 of the Dusheti Municipality Sakrebulo, adopted on 26 December 2019, published on the register's website on 30 December 2019 and in force since 1 January 2020, made under article 16(2)(k), article 24(2) and article 61(1)-(2) of the Local Self-Government Code.
Article 1 restricts the movement of freight vehicles of categories №1, №2 and №3 "for the purpose of carrying out economic activity", from the official opening of the winter season to its official closing, every Friday from 10:00 until Monday at 10:00.
It applies to every local-importance motor road in the part of Gudauri that falls inside Dusheti Municipality's administrative boundaries, and it names two of them: the road from the international-importance road to the Marco Polo hotel, and the access road from the international-importance road to the gondolas. Three things this decree does not do are as important as what it does.
It does not touch the international-importance road itself — the highway through the pass is not a local-importance road, and nothing here closes it. It does not define its own categories №1, №2 and №3, so the record does not equate them with any other classification.
And it does not date the season: "official opening" and "official closing" are events the decree leaves to be announced elsewhere, so there is no month here from which a driver could work out whether today is inside the season. Article 2 sends a driver who breaks the time or the place to the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia without naming an article of it, so this record carries no figure for the fine.
The scheme has no name of its own; the title above is the decree's.
სსიპ „საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე“ (Legislative Herald of Georgia) — the national register, serving decree №28 in full. The page carries no consolidated-publication list and no paywall notice, so the free text is the text in force; on this host that is a property of the individual act rather than of the register, and an amended act would be unreadable to us (D-197)
There is no charge, and no absence of one to fill in later. The decree's instrument is a prohibition on moving at certain times in certain places, not a tariff: it offers no payment, no permit and no counter at which a goods vehicle could buy the Saturday it is barred from. Article 2 sets a consequence for driving anyway, which is a penalty and not a price of entry.
Every Friday from 10:00 until Monday at 10:00, from the official opening of the winter season to its official closing. The weekly window is exact and the season is not: the decree fixes the days and the times, and it dates neither end of the season, naming only the "official opening" (ოფიციალური გახსნა) and the "official closing" (ოფიციალური დახურვა) as events.
Nothing in the decree says who announces them or when, and this record does not supply a month for either — so on any given date it can tell a driver whether the hours are inside the weekly window, and it cannot tell them whether the season is open.
სსიპ „საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე“ — article 1(1) of decree №28, which is where both the weekly window and the season qualifier are stated, in one sentence
Every local-importance motor road (ადგილობრივი მნიშვნელობის საავტომობილო გზა) in the part of the Gudauri territory that lies inside the administrative boundaries of Dusheti Municipality. The decree names two of those roads: the one running from the international-importance road to the Marco Polo hotel, and the access road running from the international-importance road to the gondolas. Two limits come with that.
The international-importance road itself — the Georgian Military Highway through the Cross Pass — is not a local-importance road and is not restricted by this decree, so a lorry passing through Gudauri on the highway is outside the rule and a lorry turning off it into the resort is inside.
And the decree draws the other edge of its area by an administrative boundary rather than by a street: only the Dusheti side of Gudauri is covered, and Gudauri village itself sits in the neighbouring Kazbegi Municipality.
We measured where the two meet rather than describing it from the decree: the Dusheti municipal boundary (OSM relation/2025552) runs 0.94 km east of the Gudauri village node, and an Overpass containment query at 42.4780, 44.4950 — inside the closed way named "Gudauri Ski Resort" — returns დუშეთის მუნიციპალიტეტი.
So the restricted roads are the eastern, resort-side ones, and the municipality does not publish the line that decides it.
სსიპ „საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე“ — article 1(1) and 1(2) of decree №28. The two named roads are the decree's own examples, introduced by "მათ შორის" ("among them"), so they illustrate the area and do not exhaust it
No emission standard applies, to a petrol vehicle or to any other. The decree asks three questions — is the vehicle a goods vehicle of category №1, №2 or №3, is it moving for the purpose of economic activity, and is it between Friday 10:00 and Monday 10:00 in the season — and what comes out of the exhaust is not among them.
Nor a diesel standard, and for the same reason. Georgia has no national low-emission-zone framework for a municipality to hang an emission class on, and this decree builds none: it is a time-and-place restriction on freight movement at a ski resort.
The decree states that there is a penalty and does not state what it is. Article 2 says that moving a freight vehicle in breach of the defined time or place, for the purpose of economic activity, "will entail the imposition of the sanctions provided for by the Law of Georgia — the Administrative Offences Code" — and it names no article and no figure.
The Code is long, its article 125 alone runs to dozens of paragraphs, and choosing the one that fits would be our reading of which offence a municipal freight-movement restriction becomes, not the municipality's. That reading decides a sum of money charged to a driver, so we do not make it.
This is a different silence from Tsqaltubo's decree №7, where the act's own penalty article points at a prohibitory sign that the Code names and prices at 100 GEL.
სსიპ „საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე“ — decree №28 in full; every line above is the decree's own content, including the two it declines to supply (the season's dates and the penalty's article)
სსიპ „საქართველოს საკანონმდებლო მაცნე“ (Legislative Herald of Georgia) — decree №28 of the Dusheti Municipality Sakrebulo of 26 December 2019, registration code 010250050.35.152.016387, published on the register's website on 30 December 2019, in force from 1 January 2020. This is the whole scheme: three articles, no annex
Next scheduled re-check: 2027-03-19.