Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 40. MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Chapter 9. REPORTING ACCIDENTS; GIVING PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY · Article 4. GIVING PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FUTURE

40-9-81. Proof required upon restoration of driver’s license suspended for certain offenses.

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

(a)
Whenever any person is convicted of any offense making mandatory the suspension of such person’s driver’s license, the department shall not restore the license to such person until permitted under the motor vehicle laws of this state, and not then unless and until such person shall give and thereafter maintain proof of financial responsibility for the future.#
(b)
If such person does not have the required proof at any time during the one-year period following the date of restoration of his driver’s license, the department shall immediately revoke the license.#

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, § 7A; Ga. L. 1956, p. 543, § 15; Ga. L. 1957, p. 124, § 4; Ga. L. 1958, p. 694, § 3; Ga. L. 1963, p. 593, § 8; Ga. L. 1964, p. 225, § 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 249, § 1; Code 1933, § 68C-502, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1.

Cross references

Offenses giving rise to mandatory suspension of driver’s license, § 40-5-54. Factors governing restoration of drivers’ licenses generally, § 40-5-62.

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