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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 2. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLES · Article 3. PRESTIGE LICENSE PLATES AND SPECIAL PLATES FOR CERTAIN PERSONS AND VEHICLES

40-2-71. Design of disabled veteran license plates; restrictions on issuance.

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

Effective January 1, 2026.In force today: Effective January 1, 2026.
  1. (a)

    The commissioner is directed to furnish the license plates provided for in Code Sections 40-2-69 and 40-2-70. Such plates shall be printed in three colors: red, white, and blue. The commissioner is authorized and directed to design the license plate. Each license plate shall contain, in bold characters, the name of the state, or abbreviation thereof, the year, the serial number, either the words “Disabled Veteran” or “Disabled Vet,” and an image of the International Symbol of Access which is at least one inch in height and is white on a blue background.#

  2. (b)

    No disabled veteran shall be entitled to own or operate more than two vehicles with the free license plates provided by Code Sections 40-2-69, 40-2-70, and this Code section.#

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. 1956, p. 336, §§ 2, 3, 5; Ga. L. 1957, p. 69, § 2; Ga. L. 1959, p. 349, § 2; Code 1981, § 40-2-70; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1476, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-2-71, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 40; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1118, § 11; Ga. L. 1997, p. 419, § 21; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1179, § 16; Ga. L. 2012, p. 155, § 3/HB 732;Ga. L. 2025, p. 559, § 3/HB 208, effective January 1, 2026.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 40-2-71 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective January 1, 2026. For version effective until January 1, 2026, see the preceding version.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective January 1, 2026, inserted “license” in the last sentence of subsection (a); deleted former subsection (b), which read: “Such license plates so issued shall be transferred to another vehicle as provided in Code Section 40-2-80.”; redesignated former subsection (c) as present subsection (b); and substituted “two vehicles” for “one vehicle” in subsection (b).

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2025, p. 559, § 6/HB 208, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “In accordance with the requirements of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(n) of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, this Act shall not become law unless it receives the requisite two-thirds’ majority vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.” The legislation received the requisite two-thirds’ majority vote.

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

Text read from t40-ch1-5-(v28a)-pdf.pdf, Volume V28A, 2024 edition, 2025 supplement, page 67; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 88c2e7ce2110.

Effective until January 1, 2026.No longer in force as printed (Effective until January 1, 2026.)
  1. (a)

    The commissioner is directed to furnish the license plates provided for in Code Sections 40-2-69 and 40-2-70. Such plates shall be printed in three colors: red, white, and blue. The commissioner is authorized and directed to design the license plate. Each plate shall contain, in bold characters, the name of the state, or abbreviation thereof, the year, the serial number, either the words “Disabled Veteran” or “Disabled Vet,” and an image of the International Symbol of Access which is at least one inch in height and is white on a blue background.#

  2. (b)

    Such license plates so issued shall be transferred to another vehicle as provided in Code Section 40-2-80.#

  3. (c)

    No disabled veteran shall be entitled to own or operate more than one vehicle with the free license plates provided by Code Sections 40-2-69, 40-2-70, and this Code section.#

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. 1956, p. 336, §§ 2, 3, 5; Ga. L. 1957, p. 69, § 2; Ga. L. 1959, p. 349, § 2; Code 1981, § 40-2-70; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1476, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-2-71, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 40; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1118, § 11; Ga. L. 1997, p. 419, § 21; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1179, § 16; Ga. L. 2012, p. 155, § 3/HB 732.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 40-2-71 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective until January 1, 2026. For version effective January 1, 2026, see the following version.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t40-ch1-5-(v28a)-pdf.pdf, Volume V28A, 2024 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 66 to 67; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 88c2e7ce2110.

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