07 LC 35
0417S
The
Senate Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee offered the following
substitute to SB 25:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor
vehicles and traffic, so as to provide for penalties for making a false
statement, committing false swearing, or aiding or abetting another to do so; to
require an owner of a vehicle, unless otherwise exempt, to present a valid
Georgia driver´s license or identification card when registering or
renewing the registration of a vehicle; to provide for related matters; to
provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and
for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Title
40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and
traffic, is amended by revising Code Section 40-2-3, relating to false statement
in application as constituting false swearing, as follows:
"40-2-3.
Any
person who
knowingly
shall make any false statement in any application for the registration of any
vehicle, or in transferring any certificate of registration, or in applying for
a new certificate of registration,
and any person
who knowingly aids or abets another to do
so, shall be guilty of false swearing,
whether or not an oath is actually administered to him
or
her, if such statement shall purport to be
under oath. On conviction of such offense, such person shall be punished
as provided
by Code Section 16-10-71
by a fine of
not more than $5,000.00 or by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than
five years, or both."
SECTION
2.
Said
title is further amended in Code Section 40-2-33, relating to the issuance of
license plates, payment and disposition of fees, and compensation of tag agents,
by adding a new subsection as follows:
"(d)
The initial issuance of any tag shall not be made unless the applicant presents
at the time of application a valid Georgia driver´s license or Georgia
identification card except for persons expressly exempted in Code Section
40-5-21."
SECTION
3.
Said
title is further amended in Code Section 40-5-125, relating to fraudulent
driver´s license or identification card and false statements in
applications, by revising subsection (b) as follows:
"(b)
Any person who knowingly makes any false statement in an application for a
driver´s license provided for by this
chapter, and
any person who knowingly aids or abets another to do
so, shall be guilty of
a violation
of Code Section 16-10-20
making a false
statement and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than
$5,000.00 or by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than five years, or
both."
SECTION
4.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2007, and shall apply to all initial
applications for tags submitted on or after that date and shall apply to all
offenses committed on or after that date.
SECTION
5.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.