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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

40-2-28. Proof of ownership.

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

  1. (a)

    Initial applications for registration shall contain such information of ownership as the commissioner shall deem proper, and no vehicle shall be registered unless the commissioner shall be satisfied that the applicant for registration is entitled to have the vehicle registered in his name. Proof of purchase at a judicial sale or previous registration in this state by the applicant may be accepted as evidence of ownership by the commissioner.#

  2. (b)

    Applications for registration of vehicles brought into this state and previously registered in other states shall be accompanied by an affidavit from the motor vehicle registering official of that state, or other satisfactory evidence indicating that the applicant is the lawful owner of the vehicle, including the date, name, and address of the person from whom it was purchased.#

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. 1925, p. 315, § 1; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, § 84; Code 1933, § 68-205; Ga. L. 1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 366, § 2; Ga. L. 1955, p. 424, § 1; Ga. L. 1973, p. 455, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-2-26; Code 1981, § 40-2-28, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 2.

Law reviews

For comment on Blalock v. Brown, 78 Ga. App. 537, 51 S.E.2d 610 (1949), see 1 Mercer L. Rev. 128 (1949).

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

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