What Article 135² regulates
Article 135² of the Code of Administrative Offences of Georgia establishes liability for driving a heavy vehicle, within the administrative boundaries of the municipality of Tbilisi on a public-use automobile road, at a place or at a time that does not correspond to what has been determined by the representative body of the Tbilisi municipality. Traffic in a large city is already dense, and heavy vehicles additionally slow it down, damage the road surface and reduce the overall level of safety. This is why the representative body of the Tbilisi municipality determines where and when such vehicles may move, and a breach of those determinations constitutes an administrative offence.
Who is covered by the norm
The first part of the article targets vehicles of categories M3, N2, N3 and T — these are heavy-vehicle categories covering large buses, heavy lorries and special equipment. The offence is committed when such a vehicle moves at a place and/or at a time that does not correspond to the place and/or time determined by the representative body of the Tbilisi municipality. The restriction may accordingly concern either parameter: a particular district, street or section of road, as well as particular hours of the day. Drivers of heavy vehicles therefore need to know not only the route geometry but also the time windows in which their category is admitted on the streets of the capital.
The amounts of the fines
The fine for the violation provided for by the first part of the article is 1,000 GEL. If the same act is committed by a person who has already been subjected to administrative penalty for this offence, the fine increases to 3,000 GEL. The third part of the article treats as a separate element driving for the purpose of delivery or transfer of goods intended for use in the entrepreneurial activity of the recipient — in that case the fine is likewise 1,000 GEL, and on repeated commission 3,000 GEL. This structure shows that the legislature keeps both transit movement and business-related deliveries under the same control, and the increase of the fine on repetition — threefold, from 1,000 to 3,000 GEL — applies equally to both. It is useful to note how repetition is framed: the increased fine applies to a person who has already been subjected to administrative penalty for an offence under this article, so each new violation after a penalty means the higher amount. For businesses making regular deliveries in the capital, route planning and awareness of the municipal determinations thus become a matter of direct cost management rather than a mere formality.