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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-3-39. Compensation of tag agents; mailing of applications to department.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-3-39. Compensation of tag agents; mailing of applications to department.

The commissioner is authorized to utilize the services of persons appointed as county tag agents under Code Section 40-2-23 and to allow such county tag agents to retain a fee therefor not in excess of 50¢ for each application handled, such fee to be disposed of as other tag fees retained by him or her as tag agent are disposed of in his or her county. Any applicant for a title shall have the right to mail the application directly to the department.

## History

Ga. L. 1961, p. 68, § 18; Code 1981, § 40-3-37; Ga. L. 1985, p. 485, § 2; Code 1981, § 40-3-39, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 3; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 40; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 4-8.