--- title: Title 43, Chapter 40. Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons collection: code id: code:chapter:43-40 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/43/chapter/40 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40.md 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/43.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-39A.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-41.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: REAL ESTATE BROKERS AND SALESPERSONS title_heading: PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES section_count: 37 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40.md?full=1 --- # Title 43, Chapter 40. Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons Title 43. Professions and Businesses 37 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 43-40-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-1.md - 43-40-2, Creation of commission; members; meetings; recusal for conflict of interest; removal; compensation; annual report; budget unit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-2.md - 43-40-3, Determination of fees by commission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-3.md - 43-40-3.1, Rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-3.1.md - 43-40-4, Office of commissioner; qualifications; restrictions; staff; oath; duties and powers; reimbursement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-4.md - 43-40-5, Status of license of commissioner and commission employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-5.md - 43-40-6, Seal; records, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-6.md - 43-40-7, Application for licenses; confidentiality, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-7.md - 43-40-8, Qualifications of licensees; course of study for licensed salespersons; lapse; reinstatement; renewal; continuing education; standards for courses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-8.md - 43-40-9, Nonresident licensees; service of process; reciprocity; contracts with licensed Georgia brokers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-9.md - 43-40-10, Requirements for firm to be granted broker’s license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-10.md - 43-40-11, Form of license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-11.md - 43-40-12, Fees; inactive status; licensure of broker as salesperson; penalty fees; extension of renewal period, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-12.md - 43-40-13, Disposition of fees collected under chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-13.md - 43-40-14, Power of commission to issue, revoke, or suspend licenses and censure licensees; power to enter contracts; retention of funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-14.md - 43-40-15, Grant of licenses; grounds for suspension or revocation of license; other sanctions; surrender or lapse; conviction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-15.md - 43-40-16, Refusal to issue licenses; hearings; judicial review, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-16.md - 43-40-17, Revocation or suspension of license issued to partnership, limited liability company, or corporation, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-17.md - 43-40-18, Management of firm and licensed affiliates; compliance with local ordinances, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-18.md - 43-40-19, Change of place of business; transfer of salesperson, associate broker, or community association manager, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-19.md - 43-40-20, Trust or escrow checking account for real estate business; when entitled to commission, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-20.md - 43-40-21, Violations involving real estate accounts; report to Attorney General; injunctions; appointment of receiver, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-21.md - 43-40-22, Real estate education, research, and recovery fund; revocation of license upon court order for payment from fund; subrogation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-22.md - 43-40-22.1, Fidelity bond or insurance requirements for broker providing community management services, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-22.1.md - 43-40-23, Applicability of county or municipal license, occupational, or professional taxes, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-23.md - 43-40-24, Requisites for maintenance of action under chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-24.md - 43-40-25, Violations by licensees, schools, and instructors; sanctions; unfair trade practices, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-25.md - 43-40-25.1, Completion of certain forms not practice of law; contents of certain forms, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-25.1.md - 43-40-25.2, Alternative disciplinary procedures; citations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-25.2.md - 43-40-26, Hearings before commission; judicial review, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-26.md - 43-40-27, Investigation of complaints; subpoenas; confidentiality; publication of licensee name upon revocation or suspension; closed meetings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-27.md - 43-40-27.1, Conviction data, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-27.1.md - 43-40-28, Injunctive actions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-28.md - 43-40-29, Exceptions to operation of chapter, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-29.md - 43-40-30, Acting without a license; cease and desist order; judicial review; effect of Code section on other remedies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-30.md - 43-40-30.1, Employer-employee or broker-independent contractor relationships between licensees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-30.1.md - 43-40-31, Penalty, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-40-31.md