Any person who purchases or sells or offers for sale any used passenger car, truck chassis, engine, or transmission required to be numbered by this article shall keep a permanent record of such transactions. Such record shall include: the item and its identification number or numbers; the name and address of the person from whom the item was purchased; and the name and address of the person to whom the item was sold. Such record shall be kept for three years from the date of the transaction and shall be available to all law enforcement officers for inspection at any reasonable time during business hours without prior notice or the necessity of obtaining a search warrant.
(Ga. L. 1966, p. 188, § 4; Ga. L. 1967, p. 113, § 4; Code 1981, §40-4-6, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1996, p. 336, § 13A.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 21 Am. Jur. 2d, Criminal Law, §§ 1, 27, 30 et seq.
C.J.S.- 61A C.J.S., Motor Vehicles, §§ 1746, 1747.
ALR.
- Constitutionality of statute making possession of automobile from which identifying marks have been removed a crime, 4 A.L.R. 1538; 42 A.L.R. 1149.
Civil rights and liabilities as affected by failure to comply with regulations as to registration of automobile or motorcycle, or licensing of operator, 54 A.L.R. 374.