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Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 9. REPORTING ACCIDENTS; GIVING PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY · Article 2. REPORTING ACCIDENTS; GIVING SECURITY FOR DAMAGES

40-9-35. Agreements for payment of damages.

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

  1. (a)

    Any two or more of the persons involved in or affected by an accident may enter into a written agreement for the payment of an agreed amount with respect to all claims of any of such persons because of bodily injury to or death or property damage arising from such accident, which agreement may provide for payment in installments, and may file a signed copy thereof with the department.#

  2. (b)

    The department, to the extent provided by any such written agreement filed with it, shall not require the deposit of security and shall terminate any prior order of suspension or, if security has previously been deposited, the department shall immediately return such security to the depositor or his personal representative.#

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. 1951, p. 565, § 6; Code 1933, § 68C-305, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1.

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

Text read from t40-ch6-16-(v29)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V29, 2018 edition, page 561; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 82c1b132c971.