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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 4. IDENTIFICATION OF AND PURCHASE AND RESALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND PARTS · Article 1. IDENTIFICATION OF PASSENGER CARS, TRUCK CHASSIS, AND COMPONENTS

40-4-3. Vehicle identification numbers required.

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

  1. (a)

    New passenger cars and components manufactured within state. After January 1, 1997, new passenger cars, truck chassis with features designed for specialized requirements of wreckers, passenger car engines, and transmissions, as specified in this article, manufactured within this state and intended for sale to the general public within this state, shall be required to have placed upon them vehicle identification numbers and component identification numbers. The vehicle identification number shall not be the same as the vehicle identification number of any other passenger car or truck chassis manufactured by the same manufacturer. The component identification number shall not be the same as the component identification number for any other like component manufactured by the same manufacturer but may be the same as the vehicle identification number if the component is installed as original equipment in the passenger car or truck chassis.#

  2. (b)

    New passenger cars sold within state. After January 1, 1997, no new passenger car or truck chassis with features designed for specialized requirements of a wrecker shall be sold to the general public in this state unless such passenger car shall bear a vehicle identification number, which shall not be the same as the vehicle identification number of any other passenger car made by the same manufacturer.#

  3. (c)

    New components sold within state. After January 1, 1967, no new passenger car engine or passenger car transmission shall be sold to the general public in this state unless it shall bear an identification number. The component identification number shall not be the same as the identification number for any other like passenger car component made by the same manufacturer but may be the same as the vehicle identification number if the particular component has been installed as original equipment in the passenger car prior to its sale to the general public.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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. 1966, p. 188, § 1; Ga. L. 1967, p. 113, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 336, § 13A.

Administrative rules and regulations

Motor Vehicle Identification Numbers Issued by the State Revenue Commissioner, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division, Rule 560-10-18-.01 et seq.

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)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V28A, 2024 edition, pages 473 to 474; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 991cd8c9db96.