O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-5-69 (2019)

Circumstances not affecting suspensions by operation of law

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

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If a person’s driver’s license is suspended by operation of law as provided in Code Section 40-5-63, 40-5-67.1, or 40-5-67.2, the fact that the person’s driver’s license was not physically surrendered to the law enforcement officer at the time the person was charged with violating Code Section 40-6-391 or that the person’s driver’s license was not retained by the court and forwarded to the department as provided in Code Section 40-5-67 or that the person’s driver’s license was not forwarded as provided in Code Section 40-5-72 shall not affect such suspension.

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History

Code 1981, § 40-5-73, enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1000, § 1; Code 1981, § 40-5-69, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 4; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2564, § 8; Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 22; Ga. L. 2000, p. 951, § 5-34.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Teen-age and Adult Driver Responsibility Act.’” Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 27, not codified by

the General Assembly, provides that the amendment made by the Act to this Code section shall apply to offenses committed on or after July 1, 1997, and shall not apply to offenses committed prior to that date. Law reviews. For note on 1992 amendment of this Code section, see 9 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 298 (1992). For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 203 (1997).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1992–1992 · leading case: Stinson v. State, 416 S.E.2d 765 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992).

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Stinson v. State, 416 S.E.2d 765 (Ga. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “Any such error in sentencing was rendered harmless by the fact that the law in effect at the time of the commission of the crime, former OCGA § 40-5-69, Ga. L. 1983, p. 1000, § 1, also mandated the surrender of a driver’s license upon conviction of violating OCGA § 40-6-391.”

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