O.C.G.A.
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.
The department is authorized to cancel any driver’s license or identification card issued by the department pursuant to Code Section 40-5-100 upon determining that the holder of such license or identification card was not entitled to the issuance thereof under this chapter or failed to give the required or correct information in the application for such license or identification card.
History
Code 1933, § 68B-301, enacted by Ga. L. 1975, p. 1008, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 4; Ga. L. 1995, p. 920, § 3; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5-14; Ga. L. 2024, p. 1052, § 4(51)/SB 448, effective July 1, 2024.
Amendments. The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “personal” following “driver’s license or” near the beginning of this Code section.
Annotations
RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 7A Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 117. C.J.S. 60 C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, § 353 et seq. ALR. Validity, construction, and application of statute or ordinance relating to granting or revocation of license or permit to operate automobile, 125 A.L.R. 1459. Validity, construction, and application
of provision for revocation or suspension of driver’s license because of conviction of traffic violation in another state, 87 A.L.R.2d 1019. Denial, suspension, or cancellation of driver’s license because of physical disease or defect, 38 A.L.R.3d 452. Admissibility, in motor vehicle license suspension proceedings, or evidence obtained by unlawful search and seizure, 23 A.L.R.5th 108.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
5
cases, 1983–2015 · leading case:
Brock v. State, 299 S.E.2d 71 (Ga. Ct. App. 1983).
Brock v. State, 299 S.E.2d 71 (Ga. Ct. App. 1983).
· cites it 2× “68B-3 (now OCGA §§ 40-5-50 through 40-5-66), said statute does not purport to deprive a court of competent jurisdiction of the authority to suspend a driver’s license as a condition of probation.”
Martines v. Worley & Sons Constr., 628 S.E.2d 113 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006).
· cites it 2× “OCGA § 40-5-1 (15) (“[N]o person shall be considered a resident for purposes of this chapter unless such person is either a United States citizen or an alien with legal authorization from the U.”
Wolfe v. Georgia Dep't of Driver Servs., 768 S.E.2d 528 (Ga. Ct. App. 2015).
· cites it 6× “1 Following the Illinois ban, the Department cancelled Wolfe’s Georgia driver’s license pursuant to OCGA § 40-5-50, claiming that the withdrawal of Wolfe’s driving privileges in Illinois renders him ineligible for the issuance of a driver’s license in Georgia.”
Chapman v. State, 414 S.E.2d 240 (Ga. Ct. App. 1991).
· cites it 2× “The officer’s testimony only shows that defendant stated he did not have a driver’s license.”
Sultenfuss v. State, 314 S.E.2d 459 (Ga. Ct. App. 1984).
· cites it 2× “On April 6, 1983 appellant entered a plea of guilty in the Superior Court of Bibb County for violation of Georgia’s habitual traffic violator law, OCGA § 40-5-50 et seq. (Code Ann. § 68B-301).”
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