2016 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 2 - Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles
Article 7 - Motor Vehicle License Fees and Classes
§ 40-2-151. Annual license fees for operation of vehicles; fee for permanent licensing of certain trailers; fee for new passenger car

(a) The annual fees for the licensing of the operation of vehicles shall be as follows for each vehicle registered:

(1) For each passenger motor vehicle not operated as a common or

contract carrier for hire................................$ 20.00

(2) For each motorcycle.............................................20.00

(3)(A) For each private commercial motor vehicle in accordance with the

owner declared gross vehicle weight rating, as follows:

(i) Less than 18,001 lbs................................25.00

(ii) 18,001 to 26,000 lbs...............................38.00

(iii) 26,001 to 30,000 lbs..............................45.00

(iv) 30,001 to 36,000 lbs...............................70.00

(v) 36,001 to 44,000 lbs...............................115.00

(vi) 44,001 to 54,999 lbs..............................190.00

(vii) 55,000 to 63,280 lbs.............................300.00

(viii) 63,281 lbs. to maximum permitted................400.00

(B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph notwithstanding:

(i) A straight truck which is not a truck-tractor shall not

be classified higher than $75.00;

(ii) A straight truck hauling fertilizer or agricultural

products shall not be classified higher than

$31.00; and

(iii) A truck-tractor hauling fertilizer, milk, or crops as

defined in paragraph (7.1) of Code Section 1-3-3

shall not be classified higher than $220.00;

(4) For each farm truck.............................................20.00

(5) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code section, for

each private trailer.......................................20.00

(6)(A) For each farm trailer including, but not limited to, horse and

cattle trailers, the maximum fee shall be $12.00.

(B) There shall be no fee for trailers:

(i) Used exclusively to haul agricultural products from one

place on the farm to another or from one farm or

field to another;

(ii) With no springs which are being employed in hauling

unprocessed farm products to their market

destination; and

(iii) With no springs which are pulled from a tongue and

used primarily to transport fertilizer to the farm;

(7) For house trailers, auto trailers, and boat trailers, whether pulled

by a private automobile or a private truck, and not used as or

in connection with a motor vehicle, truck, or tractor used as a

common or contract carrier for hire........................12.00

(8) For trailers used as or in connection with a motor vehicle, truck,

or tractor used as a common or contract carrier for hire...12.00

(9) For each motor bus or van-type vehicle used as a common or contract

carrier for hire in public transportation transporting

passengers, the following:

(A) Weighing 10,000 pounds or less, $1.90 per 100 pounds factory

weight or fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight;

(B) Weighing more than 10,000 pounds and not over 15,000 pounds

factory weight, $2.75 for each 100 pounds or fractional

part of 100 pounds factory weight;

(C) Weighing more than 15,000 pounds and not more than 20,000

pounds factory weight, $3.45 for each 100 pounds or

fractional part of 100 pounds factory weight; and

(D) Weighing more than 20,000 pounds factory weight, $3.75 for

each 100 pounds or fractional part of 100 pounds factory

weight. No motor bus license fee shall exceed $875.00;

(10)(A) For each commercial motor vehicle operated as a common or

contract carrier for hire in accordance with owner

declared gross vehicle weight rating, as follows:

(i) Less than 18,001 lbs................................25.00

(ii) 18,001 to 26,000 lbs...............................38.00

(iii) 26,001 to 30,000 lbs..............................85.00

(iv) 30,001 to 36,000 lbs..............................130.00

(v) 36,001 to 44,000 lbs...............................215.00

(vi) 44,001 to 54,999 lbs..............................365.00

(vii) 55,000 to 63,280 lbs.............................575.00

(viii) 63,281 lbs. to maximum permitted................725.00

(B) Subparagraph (A) of this paragraph notwithstanding, a straight

truck which is not a truck-tractor shall not be

classified higher than $150.00;

(11) For each commercial motor vehicle leased to a common or contract

carrier without regard to the duration of the lease and in

accordance with the gross vehicle weight rating, the same

license fees as required under paragraph (10) of this

subsection;

(12) For each motor driven hearse or ambulance......................20.00

(13) For each school bus operated exclusively in the transportation of

pupils and teachers to and from schools or school activities or

in the transportation of the owner and the members of his

immediate family, the sum of $20.00. A bus owned by a church

or owned in common with other churches and used and operated

exclusively for the church in transporting members and patrons

to and from church or church activities, when no part of the

proceeds of the operation of the bus inures to the benefit of

any private person, shall be licensed for the sum of $20.00 in

the same manner as school buses when the bus complies with the

laws applicable to school buses;

(14) For each motor vehicle owned by the state or by a political

subdivision or municipality of the state and used exclusively

for governmental functions..................................1.00

(15) For each motor vehicle used by carriers and operated under special

franchise granted by the United States Department of Defense

over a route of not more than 20 miles in length which is

solely between a point in this state and a point within a

United States military reservation in this state...........20.00

(16) Heavy earth-moving machinery, fertilizer application equipment, and

crop protection chemical application equipment, not including

trucks, which are used primarily off the highway shall not be

required to be licensed under this article;

(17)(A) Trucks transporting logs, pulpwood, or other forest products

shall be licensed in accordance with the following annual

fees:

(i) Straight trucks and truck-tractors pulling a single pole

trailer hauling logs from the woods to the sawmill..

..........................................................................38.00

(ii) Other truck-tractors..............................220.00

(B) Skidders, tractors, and loaders used only in the woods shall

not be required to be licensed. Trucks and

truck-tractors specified in subparagraph (A) of this

paragraph shall be licensed in accordance with this

paragraph even though the trucks or truck-tractors are

also used to transport skidders, tractors, loaders, and

other logging equipment. Trucks and truck-tractors

specified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall not

be required to pay additional fees or obtain additional

license plates in order to transport logging equipment

owned by the owner of the trucks or truck-tractors;

(18) For each agricultural field use vehicle........................31.00

(19)(A) (i) Upon registration of an alternative fueled vehicle not

operated for commercial purposes..............200.00

(ii) Upon registration of an alternative fueled vehicle

operated for commercial purposes..............300.00

(B) (i) As used in this paragraph, the term "alternative fueled vehicle" shall have the same meaning as in division (l)(7)(B)(ii) of Code Section 40-2-86.1; provided, however, that the fees in this paragraph shall not be assessed on vehicles which operate primarily on compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, or liquefied petroleum gas.

(ii) The fees in this paragraph shall be in addition to any other fee imposed on the vehicle by this Code section.

(iii) The fees in this paragraph shall be automatically adjusted on an annual basis by multiplying the percentage of increase or decrease in fuel efficiency from the previous year as measured by using the average of combined miles per gallon published in the United States Department of Energy Fuel Economy Guide against the current fee, and the resulting increase or decrease shall be added or subtracted from the fee. This preliminary fee adjustment shall then be multiplied by the increase or decrease in the Consumer Price Index percentage for the applicable year, and the result will be added or subtracted from the preliminary fee to produce the fee for the year. The first adjustment shall be calculated and implemented on July 1, 2016. The Consumer Price Index shall no longer be used after July 1, 2018.

(b) In lieu of the annual fee provided in paragraphs (6), (7) or (8) of subsection (a) of this Code section, the optional one-time fee for a permanent registration and license plate for:

(1) Any trailer used as or in connection with a motor vehicle, truck, or tractor used as a common or contract carrier for hire, a private carrier, or a motor carrier of property; or

(2) Any boat trailer, utility trailer, or noncommercial cattle and livestock trailer authorized to obtain a permanent registration and license plate under the provisions of Code Section 40-2-47 shall be $48.00.

(c) The fee for a new passenger car for which the purchaser has paid state and local title ad valorem taxes and that is being registered as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 40-2-20 shall be $40.00 for the two-year registration period.