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# O.C.G.A. § 40-5-63.1. Clinical evaluation and substance abuse treatment programs for certain offenders.

In addition to any and all other conditions of license reinstatement, issuance, or restoration under Code Section 40-5-57.1, 40-5-58, 40-5-62, or 40-5-63, any person with two or more convictions for violating Code Section 40-6-391 within ten years, as measured from the dates of previous arrests for which convictions were obtained to the date of the current arrest for which a conviction is obtained, shall be required to undergo a clinical evaluation and, if recommended as a part of such evaluation, shall complete a substance abuse treatment program prior to such license reinstatement, issuance, or restoration; provided, however, that such evaluation and treatment shall be at such person’s expense except as otherwise provided by Code Section 37-7-120. Acceptable proof of completion of such a program shall be submitted to the department prior to license reinstatement, issuance, or restoration. For purposes of this Code section, a plea of nolo contendere to a charge of violating Code Section 40-6-391 and all prior accepted pleas of nolo contendere within ten years, as measured from the dates of previous arrests for which convictions were obtained or pleas of nolo contendere were accepted to the date of the current arrest for which a plea of nolo contendere is accepted, shall be considered and counted as convictions.

## History

Code 1981, § 40-5-63.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 17; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5-26; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1457, § 3; Ga. L. 2008, p. 498, § 1/HB 336; Ga. L. 2012, p. 72, § 4/SB 236.

## Cross References

Hospitalization and Treatment of Alco-holics, Drug Dependent Individuals, and Drug Abusers, § 37-7-1 et seq.

DUI Alcohol or Drug Use Risk Reduction Programs, § 40-5-80 et seq.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Teen-age and Adult Driver Responsibility Act.’”

Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 27, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment made by the Act to this Code section shall apply to offenses committed on or after July 1, 1997, and shall not apply to offenses committed prior to that date.

Ga. L. 2008, p. 498, § 5/HB 336, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that the amendment to this Code section shall be applied to offenses occurring on or after July 1, 2008; provided, however, that for purposes of determining the number of prior convictions or pleas of nolo contendere pursuant to the felony provisions of paragraph (4) of subsection (c) of Code Section 40-6-391, only those offenses for which a conviction or a plea of nolo contendere is obtained on or after July 1, 2008, shall be considered.

## Law Reviews

For article commenting on the 1997 enactment of this Code section, see 14 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 203 (1997).

## Administrative Rules and Regulations

Clinical Evaluation and Substance Abuse Treatment for DUI Offenders, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Behaviorial Health and Disabilities, Rule 82-2-1-.01 et seq.