O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-3-22 (2019)

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✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) 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. (b) 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.

History

Ga. L. 1961, p. 68, § 9; Code 1981, § 40-3-23; Code 1981, § 40-3-22, as redes-

ignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 739, § 6.

Annotations

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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1985–1985 · leading case: Owensboro Nat'l Bank v. Jenkins, 328 S.E.2d 399 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985).

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Owensboro Nat'l Bank v. Jenkins, 328 S.E.2d 399 (Ga. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 4× “As set *778 forth in OCGA § 40-3-22 (b): “The application shall be signed by the dealer as well as the owner, and the dealer shall promptly mail or deliver it to the commissioner or his appropriate authorized county tag agent so as to have the application submitted to the…”

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