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

40-3-42. Timely submission of documents; penalty for late submissions.

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

In instances when an application for title is required to be submitted within a certain time period, proof of mailing within the designated period allowed for submission of the documents, as evidenced by a United States Postal Service postmark, shall be prima-facie proof that the application was timely submitted. Additionally, when the law provides for a penalty for the untimely submission of a title application, the responsibility for the collection of such penalty shall be that of the department.

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.

Ga. L. 1981, p. 883, § 3; Code 1981, § 40-3-40; Code 1981, § 40-3-42, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 3; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 4-9.

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