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Eyesight Associates Ophthalmologist Dr. Johnny Gayton, center, and Ajay Pillai,
second from left, stand with other attendees for the World Ophthalmology Congress
held in Hong Kong June 28-July 2. Gayton lectured at the event.
Gayton lectures m Hong Kong
By KRYSTAL RINER
Journal Staff Writer
Traveling more than
16,000 miles in five days,
Warner Robins ophthal
mologist, Dr. Johnny L.
Gayton attended the World
Ophthalmology Congress
2008 June 28- July 2 in
Hong Kong. Gayton served
as an invited faculty mem
ber for this year’s congress.
Gayton has done dozens
of lectures outside of the
county, lecturing in China,
Hungry, Mexico, Canada
and the Caribbean sharing
his techniques of surgery
and practice.
At a conference in Park
City, Utah last year, he pre
sented the outcomes of his
patients who underwent
cataract surgery and at
the same time had their
astigmatism corrected. “I
was told that those results
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mentioned that Warner
Robins had changed some of
the city street’s speed limits
to 35 miles per hour allow
ing the use of carts.
Warner Robins PD even
held a presentation to edu
cate the citizens on the use
of the carts. The stories stat
ed that a low speed vehicle is
any four-wheel electric vehi
cle, with a top speed great
er than 20 miles per hour,
but no more than 25 miles
per hour. While this is true,
other Georgia laws makes
provisions for other “Carts”
to be on the road, at least in
my interpretation.
This is what I know.
What everybody is refer
ring to as a LSV is actu
ally a NEV (Neighborhood
Electric Vehicle) as listed by
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards (FMVSS 500)*.
These are the electric cars
that are eligible to be reg
istered and have a Georgia
license plate assigned to
them.
In 2002 Gov. Roy Barnes
signed into law House Bill
1389 amending Code 40-1-
1* creating a class of motor
vehicle called a “Low Speed
Vehicle”. %
In addition to FMVSS here
are some other codes that I
think apply which answers
some of my St. Simons ques
tions. Code 40-8-35* states
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were some of the best in the
world.” Gayton Said. “I was
chosen as a WOC faculty
member for that reason.”
Topics presented and dis
cussed by Gayton at the
WOC were as diverse as
the population of ophthal
mologist in attendance. The
treatment of dry eyes and
Ocular Surface Disease lec
ture was one of the best
attended talks of the con
gress, he said. Dry eyes,
a condition affecting one
out of three adults in the
United States and is even
more prevalent in Asian
countries.
“Dry eyes affects the
quality of life of a person,”
Gayton said. As a follow-up
lecture to the talk given
in Hong Kong, Gayton has
been asked to attend the
PGA Nationals in West
Palm Beach to present a
that every LSV has an amber
strobe light on them to
warn traffic. Also Code 40-
8-4* requires all slow mov
ing vehicles to display an
emblem that complies with
subsection (b) of this code.
Code 40-6-362* also applies
to SSV It’s the section cov
ering the street with the 35
MPH limit.
So, at this point I feel like
if you have a LSV or LSV you
still need the light and sign
to be legal.
Back to the golf carts.
Georgia Code 40-6-330*
says “Motorized Carts may
be operated on streets only
during daylight hours unless
they comply with the equip
ment regulations promul
gated by the commissioner.
This tells me you can oper
ate “Cart” on the streets and
with lights at night. The key
word left out here is high
ways. Although it doesn’t
give minimum or maximum
speed, it appears that you
cannot operate them on
highways. Although it does
say you can cross highway
or streets of a municipal or
county street system at plac
es designated to cross by the
local governing authority. I
read this to mean roads or
highway with a speed limit
over 35 miles per hour.
The law also states that
local government can des
ignate certain streets to
be used with other motor
vehicles or solely for motor
ized carts. This code states
discussion on dry eyes.
Gayton took medical
school student Ajay Pillai
along with him to Hong
Kong. This 17-yearold had
expressed interest in oph
thalmology and Gayton
agreed it would be appro
priate for him to attend the
WOC.
This brilliant, gifted
young man, Gayton said,
will begin medical school in
the fall in Augusta. Pillai
has earned his undergradu
ate degree in Biochemistry
from the University of West
Georgia through a program
called Advanced Academy,
which allows high school
juniors and seniors to take
college courses early based
on their academic accelera
tion. •
Because Pillai scored a
1540/1600 on the SAT,
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that the local governments
can establish operating
standards and by ordinance
require local registration not
to exceed sls.
I think some law enforce
ment agencies look at the
“Off Road Vehicle” laws,
which is mentioned in sever
al codes. In my opinion (you
know what they say about
opinions), this law does not
apply to the carts we are
talking about.
Also, on the list of allowable
carts were the carts used for
agriculture. The law states
that any cart having no less
than three wheels, used for
agriculture that was hauling
moving raw products, sup
plies and feed were allowed.
I have a Kubota that we use
on the farm. It goes at least
20 MPH and does not go
faster than 25 MPH. Also,
it has lights, break lights
and seat belts. I guess it is
allowed on the streets, if I
have the sign and the light?
As you can see, I am a lit
tle confused about this, I’m
sure you are. I’m sure there
are other codes or city ordi
nances that may apply, I just
haven’t found them yet.
*Georgia Codes men
tioned above are on our
website www.hhjnews.
com.
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than 30 years of service. A
navigator by trade, he said,
and a resident of Bonaire, he
said he had been involved in
emergency management and
warning systems on Robins
‘Air Force Base for at least
the last 10 years.
“Using it as a microcosm
and comparing it to Warner
Robins, a much larger area,”
he said. “Living in the ‘out
back’, the area formerly SAC
(Strategic Air Command).
Living and working under
these sirens, I have discov
ered or seen that with the
siren system - even with new
ones put in five or six years
ago and just put in and com
ing on line - that when those
sirens are going off, unless
you are outside physically,
you will not hear anything.
“You can be in a building
100 yards away and you will
not hear anything. Further,
when the Robins Air Force
Base Command Post makes
an announcement, the
announcement is somewhat
garbled. Unless you’re in the
right wind pattern you don’t
even know what’s been said.”
Sienkiewicz’s personal rec
ommendation then would be,
he said, to think twice about
sirens.
“I would strongly recom
mend before we start spend
ing $2 million or $2.5
whatever the case may be
on a system that might be a
‘white elephant’ or a red her
ring or whatever ... Although
I will say before I started
getting into this locally I was
kind of thinking it was a
good idea to get the warning
system ... I would highly rec
ommend we step back and do
some more cogitating.”
And in fact, Ned Sanders
said they were going to do
just that. He said he had an
‘open mind’ and that this
- the sirens - was not a
done deal. The plan, he said,
is to look at the technology
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