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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 5. DRIVERS’ LICENSES · Article 6. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES AND JURISDICTION OF OFFENSES

40-5-125. Fraudulent driver’s license or identification card; false statements or commission of fraud in applications; criminal violation.

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

  1. (a)

    It is a misdemeanor for any person to:#

    1. (1)

      Lend his or her driver’s license or identification card to any other person or permit knowingly the use thereof by another person; or#

    2. (2)

      Display or represent as his or her own any driver’s license or identification card not issued to him or her.#

  2. (b)

    Any person who uses a false or fictitious name or gives a false or fictitious address in an application for a driver’s license provided for by this chapter shall be guilty of a violation of Code Section 16-10-20.#

  3. (c)

    Any person who knowingly makes any false statement, conceals a material fact, or otherwise commits a fraud during the driver’s license examination for a driver’s license, including a commercial driver’s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit, shall be guilty of a violation of Code Section 16-10-20.#

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

Code 1981, § 40-5-125, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 519, § 16; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 4; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1250, § 8; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5-50; Ga. L. 2002, p. 551, § 6; Ga. L. 2015, p. 1370, § 1/HB 118.

Cross references

Identity fraud, § 16-9-120 et seq.

Law reviews

For note on the 2002 amendment of this Code section, see 19 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 81 (2002).

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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 738 to 739; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 991cd8c9db96.