TITLE 40
MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
Section 3. Certificates of Title, Security Interests, and Liens, 40-3-1 through 40-3-95.
ARTICLE 2
CERTIFICATES OF TITLE
40-3-22. Examination of records.
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The commissioner or the commissioner's duly authorized county tag agent, upon receiving application for a first certificate of title, shall check the identifying number of the vehicle shown in the application against the records of vehicles required to be maintained by Code Section 40-3-23 and against the record of stolen and converted vehicles required to be maintained by Code Section 40-3-5.
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Subsection (a) of this Code section shall not be applicable to an application for the first certificate of title of a new car or a demonstrator when such application is accompanied by a manufacturer's certificate of origin.
(Ga. L. 1961, p. 68, § 9; Code 1981, §40-3-23; Code 1981, §40-3-22, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 739, § 6.)
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Priority of stolen vehicle's original owner's property right.
1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U70-224.
RESEARCH REFERENCES
C.J.S.
- 60 C.J.S., Motor Vehicles,
§§
96 et seq., 273.
U.L.A.
- Uniform Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title and Anti-Theft Act (U.L.A.)
§§
7, 8.
