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title: O.C.G.A. § 40-4-7. Penalties.
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# O.C.G.A. § 40-4-7. Penalties.

(a) Sale, shipment, or manufacture of unnumbered passenger car or component. Any person who sells or offers for sale in this state, ships or causes to be shipped into this state, or manufactures with the intention that it shall be sold at retail in this state a passenger car, truck chassis, passenger car engine, or passenger car transmission that does not bear an identification number or numbers as required by this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Failure to keep records. Any person who purchases, sells, or offers for sale any passenger car, truck chassis, passenger car engine, or passenger car transmission that is required by this article to bear an identification number when intended to be sold at wholesale or retail within this state and who willfully fails to keep the records required by Code Section 40-4-6 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for each such failure.

## History

Ga. L. 1966, p. 188, § 5; Ga. L. 1967, p. 113, § 5; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 40; Ga. L. 1994, p. 97, § 40; Code 1981, § 40-4-7, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1996, p. 336, § 13A.