O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-9-60 (2019)

Courts to report unpaid judgments to department; department to report judgments against nonresidents

✓ 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) Whenever any person fails within 30 days to satisfy any judgment rendered in an action at law arising out of a motor vehicle accident, to which no appeal has been entered or motion for a new trial entered, then upon the request of the judgment creditor or his attorney it shall be the duty of the court in which such judgment is rendered within this state to forward to the department immediately after the expiration of said 30 days a certified copy of such judgment. The court shall be entitled to a fee as required by paragraphs (4) and (5) of

subsection (g) of Code Section 15-6-77. In the event a certificate of pending or unsatisfied judgment is requested, the court shall be entitled to a fee as required by paragraph (8) of subsection (g) of Code Section 15-6-77. (b) If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the department is a nonresident, the department shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official in charge of the issuance of licenses and registrations of the state of which the defendant is a resident.

History

(Ga. L. 1956, p. 543, § 13; Code 1933, § 68C-401, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1396, § 8; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 40.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Constitutionality. - There is no constitutional violation because judgment creditor alone decides whether to seek remedy under Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1

(see now O.C.G.A. § 40-9-60). Keenan v. Hardison, 245 Ga. 599, 266 S.E.2d 205 (1980).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1997–1997 · leading case: Miles v. Andress, 493 S.E.2d 233 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997).

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Miles v. Andress, 493 S.E.2d 233 (Ga. Ct. App. 1997). · cites it 2× “The superior court judge ordered the license reinstated because, “it is inequitable to impose the provisions of Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 40-9-60, et seq.”

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