2021 Georgia Code
Title 40 - Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 4 - Identification of and Purchase and Resale of Motor Vehicles and Parts
Article 1 - Identification of Passenger Cars, Truck Chassis, and Components
§ 40-4-2. Application of Article
- The provisions of this article requiring vehicle identification numbers on passenger cars and truck chassis with features designed for specialized requirements of a wrecker shall apply only to such items manufactured after January 1, 1967, and designated by the manufacturer as a 1968 or subsequent model.
- This article shall not apply to motorcycles, personal transportation vehicles, motor driven cycles, school buses, farm tractors, buses, truck tractors, road tractors, trucks, trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers, streetcars, or go-carts or to any vehicle whether self-propelled or not which is not required to be issued a license plate under the laws of this state.
- This article shall not apply to the following special purpose vehicles:
Type 1. Truck chassis with body (other than station wagon or bus body) designed primarily for the transportation of persons;
Type 2. Truck chassis with other features designed for a specialized requirement other than a wrecker, including but not limited to fire fighting or snowplow features;
Type 3. Truck chassis with station wagon body;
Type 4.Passenger car chassis with body designed for the commercial transportation of persons;
Type 5. Bus chassis with other features designed for a specialized requirement, including but not limited to mobile laboratory, office, post office, classroom, studio, rescue unit, or library features;
Type 6. Utility vehicle, being a motor vehicle with a removable top, designed for carrying passengers or cargo and with particular features for operation both on highway and cross-country.
- This article shall not apply to the components of any vehicle excluded by subsection (b) or (c) of this Code section.
(Ga. L. 1966, p. 188, § 6; Ga. L. 1967, p. 113, § 6; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 40; Ga. L. 1993, p. 91, § 40; Ga. L. 1996, p. 336, § 13A; Ga. L. 1997, p. 143, § 40; Ga. L. 2014, p. 745, § 5/HB 877.)
Code Commission notes.- Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1993, in subsection (c), "requirement," was substituted for "requirement" in Type 5.