Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 3. CERTIFICATES OF TITLE, SECURITY INTERESTS, AND LIENS · Article 2. CERTIFICATES OF TITLE

40-3-41. Suspension or revocation of certificates of title.

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(a)
The commissioner shall suspend or revoke a certificate of title, upon notice and reasonable opportunity to be heard in accordance with Code Section 40-3-6, when authorized by any other provision of law or if he finds:#
1. (1)
  The certificate of title was fraudulently procured or erroneously issued; or#
2. (2)
  The vehicle has been scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed.#
(b)
Suspension or revocation of a certificate of title does not, in itself, affect the validity of a security interest noted on it.#
(c)
When the commissioner suspends or revokes a certificate of title, the owner or person in possession of it shall, immediately upon receiving notice of the suspension or revocation, mail or deliver the certificate to the commissioner.#
(d)
The commissioner may seize and impound any certificate of title which has been suspended or revoked.#

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. 1961, p. 68, § 28; Code 1981, § 40-3-39; Code 1981, § 40-3-41, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 3.

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