O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 40-9-81 (2019)

Proof required upon restoration of driver’s license suspended for certain offenses

✓ 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 is convicted of any offense making mandatory the suspension of such person’s driver’s license, the department shall not restore the license to such person until permitted under the motor vehicle laws of this state, and not then unless and until such person shall give and thereafter maintain proof of financial responsibility for the future. (b) If such person does not have the required proof at any time during the one-year period following the date of restoration of his driver’s license, the department shall immediately revoke the license.

History

(Ga. L. 1951, p. 565, § 7A; Ga. L. 1956, p. 543, § 15; Ga. L. 1957, p. 124, § 4; Ga. L. 1958, p. 694, § 3; Ga. L. 1963, p. 593, § 8; Ga. L. 1964, p.

REPORTING ACCIDENTS; PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESP. T.40, C.9

225, § 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 249, § 1; Code 1933, § 68C-502, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Offenses giving rise to mandatory suspension of driver’s license, § 40-5-54. Factors governing res-

toration of drivers’ licenses generally, § 40-5-62.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Purpose of section. - Object of Ga. L. 1951, p. 565, which gave to the trial judge the right to suspend the license of a driver convicted of driving while intoxicated, was to provide for the suspension of the license as part of the punishment for the violation of the law, while Ga. L. 1951, p. 565 has for its purpose requiring the qualification of the licensee as a self-insurer, or the

giving of a liability insurance policy or a surety bond, for the protection of the public from any loss or damage during a period of three years; one deals with the revocation of a privilege, and the other with a suspension of the privilege as a part of the punishment for violating the law. Murphy v. Dominy, 211 Ga. 70, 84 S.E.2d 193 (1954).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 7A Am. Jur. 2d, Automobiles and Highway Traffic, § 173 et seq.

ALR. - Automobile liability insurance, 13 A.L.R. 135; 19 A.L.R. 879; 23 A.L.R. 1472; 28 A.L.R. 1301; 41 A.L.R. 507.