---
title: O.C.G.A. § 40-5-74. Defacement or alteration of seized license prohibited.
collection: code
id: 40-5-74
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 40-5-74 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5-74
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5-74.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5-74/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t40-ch1-5-(v28a)-2024-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=636595ac_0#page=699
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5-73.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/40-5-75.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly
heading_path: MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC / DRIVERS’ LICENSES / CANCELLATION, SUSPENSION, AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES
---

# O.C.G.A. § 40-5-74. Defacement or alteration of seized license prohibited.

Whenever a person is charged with a violation of the law relating to the operation of motor vehicles resulting in the person’s driver’s license being seized by a law enforcement officer and forwarded to the court having jurisdiction of the offense or whenever a person is convicted of any offense resulting in the person’s driver’s license being suspended and forwarded to the department, such driver’s license shall not be stapled to any document or in any manner defaced or altered so as to indicate at any time in the future such previous seizure and processing of the license.

## History

Code 1981, § 40-5-74, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1250, § 6.