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title: Title 40, Chapter 12. Actions Against Nonresident Motorists
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id: code:chapter:40-12
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/40/chapter/12
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date: 2025
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heading: ACTIONS AGAINST NONRESIDENT MOTORISTS
title_heading: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
section_count: 8
full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12.md?full=1
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# Title 40, Chapter 12. Actions Against Nonresident Motorists

Title 40. Motor Vehicles and Traffic

8 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 40-12-1, Appointment of Secretary of State as agent for service of process on nonresidents; nonresident minor, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-1.md
- 40-12-2, How service on nonresident made, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-2.md
- 40-12-3, Venue of actions against nonresidents; nonresident joint defendant, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-3.md
- 40-12-4, Records to be kept by Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-4.md
- 40-12-5, Certificate of service to be sent to clerk of court; time for answering complaint, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-5.md
- 40-12-6, Continuances, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-6.md
- 40-12-7, Designation of employees to perform functions of Secretary of State, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-7.md
- 40-12-8, Service upon personal representative, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-12-8.md