O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-5-74 (2019)

Defacement or alteration of seized license prohibited

✓ 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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Whenever a person is charged with a violation of the law relating to the operation of motor vehicles resulting in the person’s driver’s license being seized by a law enforcement officer and forwarded to the court having jurisdiction of the offense or whenever a person is convicted of any offense resulting in the person’s driver’s license being suspended and forwarded to the department, such driver’s license shall not be stapled to any document or in any manner defaced or altered so as to indicate at any time in the future such previous seizure and processing of the license.

History

Code 1981, § 40-5-74, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1250, § 6.

ARTICLE 3A SUSPENSION OF LICENSE FOR BEING IN CONTROL OF A MOVING VEHICLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR MARIJUANA

Annotations

Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1990, this article, which was designated as Article 3B by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1149, § 1, was renumbered as Article 3A. Former

Article 3A, consisting of Code Sections 40-5-67 through 40-5-73 was repealed by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, effective January 1, 1991. See note under Article 3 heading.