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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 11. ABANDONED, DERELICT, AND CIVIL FORFEITURE OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 2. CIVIL FORFEITURE OF VEHICLES AND COMPONENTS

40-11-20. Items subject to civil forfeiture.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. The following items are declared to be contraband and are subject to forfeiture in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 16 of Title 9:

  2. (1)

    Any motor vehicle the manufacturer’s vehicle identification number of which has been removed, altered, defaced, falsified, or destroyed; and#

  3. (2)

    Any component part of a motor vehicle the manufacturer’s identification number of which has been removed, altered, defaced, falsified, or destroyed.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 40-11-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1948, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 7-1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 3-25/HB 233.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2015, p. 693, § 4-1/HB 233, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall become effective Jly 1, 2015, and shall apply to seizures of property for forfeiture that occur on or after that date. Any such seizure that occurs before July 1, 2015, shall be governed by the statute in effect at the time of such seizure.’’

Law reviews

For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 1 (2015).

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, page 603; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.