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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 2. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 2. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING GENERALLY

40-2-25. Processing by private persons of applications for registration.

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

  1. (a)

    The commissioner is authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations governing the processing by private persons, in any manner whatsoever, of applications for the registration of vehicles.#

  2. (b)
    1. (1)

      The tax commissioner of each county shall be authorized to require any private person processing applications for the registration of vehicles pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section to give an annual fidelity bond in the amount of $50,000.00 with good and sufficient surety or sureties licensed to do business in this state payable to, in favor of, and for the protection of either the payee, taxpayer, or the tax commissioner of the county in which such person processes such applications. Such bond shall be posted prior to the beginning of business operations each year and satisfactory proof of such bond shall be filed in the office of the tax commissioner requiring such bond prior to the beginning of business operations each year.#

    2. (2)

      Any person who violates any provision of paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

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

Ga. L. 1977, p. 697, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-2-24; Ga. L. 1988, p. 892, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1403, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-2-25, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 2; Ga. L. 2002, p. 838, § 1.

Administrative rules and regulations

Tag Service Companies, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division, Rule 560-10-28-.01 et seq.

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

Text read from t40-ch1-5-(v28a)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V28A, 2024 edition, page 195; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 991cd8c9db96.