43-43-3. Vehicle certificate of title or license plate to be transmitted to Department of Revenue upon receipt.

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

Should a scrap metal processor be presented the certificate of title or vehicle license plate for any vehicle or scrap vehicle purchased, that scrap metal processor shall mail or deliver the same to the Department of Revenue as required by law. In lieu of a certificate of title, an affidavit in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-3-36 shall be obtained by a scrap metal processor. All other requirements of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-3-36 shall be complied with, including maintenance of a copy of such affidavit, and any other rules promulgated pursuant thereto.

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. 1981, p. 973, § 4; Ga. L. 2002, p. 415, § 43; Ga. L. 2005, p. 980, § 25-3/HB 501; Ga. L. 2007, p. 585, § 2/HB 171.

Cross references

Motor vehicle chop shops, T. 16, C. 8, A. 4. Further provisions regarding disposition of certificate of title for scrapped, dismantled, or destroyed vehicles or wreckage or salvage, § 40-3-35.

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

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