Chapter 2. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING OF MOTOR VEHICLES  


Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 2. REGISTRATION AND LICENSING GENERALLY
Article 2A. FLEET VEHICLES
Article 3. PRESTIGE LICENSE PLATES AND SPECIAL PLATES FOR CERTAIN PERSONS AND VEHICLES
Article 3A. RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS FOR REGISTRATION OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES
Article 4. VEHICLES OF NONRESIDENTS
Article 5. UNREGISTERED MOTOR TRUCKS
Article 6. ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF CHAPTER
Article 6A. ADMINISTRATION OF FEDERAL UNIFIED CARRIER REGISTRATION ACT OF 2005
Article 7. MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE FEES AND CLASSES

REFS & ANNOS

TITLE 40 Chapter 2 NOTE

CROSS REFERENCES. --General duty of Georgia State Patrol to check motor vehicles for proper licensing, § 35-2-33. Procedure when date for payment of tax or license fee falls on Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, § 48-2-39. Ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles, § 48-5-440 et seq. Motor vehicle license fees, T. 48, C. 10.
 
EDITOR'S NOTES. --Since the purpose of Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, was to "revise, reorganize, modernize, consolidate, and clarify" laws relating to certain aspects of the motor vehicle code, wherever it was possible to do so, other Acts amending Title 40 were construed in conjunction with Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048. This construction particularly includes Acts amending a given Code section when the Code section was later renumbered or redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048.
 
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
 
CITED in Georgia Power Co. v. Musgrove, 77 Ga. App. 880, 50 S.E.2d 118 (1948); Freeman v. Ryder Truck Lines, 244 Ga. 80, 259 S.E.2d 36 (1979).
 
OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
 
PROBATE COURTS LACK JURISDICTION AS TO VIOLATIONS. --Probate courts have no authority or jurisdiction in violations arising under the motor vehicle and traffic law. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-18.
 
CONSTABLE CAN MAKE ARRESTS FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE MOTOR VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW; if a constable made such arrests, the constable would do so at the constable's own expense and would be entitled to no fees. 1968 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 68-324 (but see O.C.G.A. § 15-10-103).
 
RESEARCH REFERENCES
 
ALR. --License tax or fee on automobiles as affected by interstate commerce clause, 25 ALR 37; 52 ALR 533; 115 ALR 1105.
   Civil rights and liabilities as affected by failure to comply with regulations as to registration of automobile or motorcycle, or licensing of operator, 58 ALR 532; 61 ALR 1190; 78 ALR 1028; 87 ALR 1469; 111 ALR 1258; 163 ALR 1375.
   Validity of automobile registration or license fee as affected by classification or discrimination, 126 ALR 1419.
   Unlicensed automobile owned by insured as "owned automobile" within language of automobile liability insurance, 21 ALR4th 918.