Design of Disabled Veteran Plates; Restrictions on Issuance and Transfer

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Motor Vehicles and Traffic
  4. Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles
  5. Prestige License Plates and Special Plates for Certain Persons and Vehicles
  6. Design of Disabled Veteran Plates; Restrictions on Issuance and Transfer

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  1. The commissioner is directed to furnish the license plates provided for in Code Sections 40-2-69 and 40-2-70. Such plates shall be printed in three colors: red, white, and blue. The commissioner is authorized and directed to design the license plate. Each plate shall contain, in bold characters, the name of the state, or abbreviation thereof, the year, the serial number, either the words "Disabled Veteran" or "Disabled Vet," and an image of the International Symbol of Access which is at least one inch in height and is white on a blue background.
  2. Such license plates so issued shall be transferred to another vehicle as provided in Code Section 40-2-80.
  3. No disabled veteran shall be entitled to own or operate more than one vehicle with the free license plates provided by Code Sections 40-2-69, 40-2-70, and this Code section.

(Ga. L. 1956, p. 336, §§ 2, 3, 5; Ga. L. 1957, p. 69, § 2; Ga. L. 1959, p. 349, § 2; Code 1981, §40-2-70; Ga. L. 1990, p. 1476, § 1; Code 1981, §40-2-71, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1990, p. 2048, § 2; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 40; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1118, § 11; Ga. L. 1997, p. 419, § 21; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1179, § 16; Ga. L. 2012, p. 155, § 3/HB 732.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 1996, p. 1118, § 18, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "Those parts of Act No. 385, Ga. L. 1995, an Act amending Chapter 2 of Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, and amending Article 10 of Chapter 5 of Title 48 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to ad valorem taxation of motor vehicles and mobile homes, approved April 19, 1995, in conflict with this Act are repealed."

Law reviews.

- For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 215 (1997).


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