Bill Text: GA HB269 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Drivers' licenses; provide definitions; background checks; provisions

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-01-01 - Effective Date [HB269 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-HB269-Amended.html

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11 AM 34 0539

ADOPTED
Senators Loudermilk of the 52nd, Rogers of the 21st, Albers of the 56th, Orrock of the 36th and Williams of the 19th offered the following amendment:

Amend the Senate substitute to HB 269 by adding before line 21 the following:

SECTION .2.

Said chapter is further amended by revising Code Section 40-3-90, relating to felonies involving certificates of title, as follows:

"40-3-90.

A person who, with fraudulent intent:

(1) Alters, forges, or counterfeits a certificate of title;

(2) Alters or forges an assignment of a certificate of title or an assignment or release of a security interest on a certificate of title or a form the commissioner prescribed;

(3) Has possession of or uses a certificate of title knowing it to have been altered, forged, or counterfeited;

(4) Uses a false or fictitious name or address or makes a material false statement, or fails to disclose a security interest, or conceals any other material fact in an application for a certificate of title;

(5) Alters or forges a notice of a transaction concerning a security interest or lien reflected on the certificate of title as provided by Code Section 40-3-27; or

(6) Knowingly falsifies any information on the statement required by paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of Code Section 40-3-36; or

(7) Willfully violates any other provision of this chapter after having previously violated the same or any other provision of this chapter and having been convicted of that act in a court of competent jurisdiction

shall be guilty of a felony."

By adding between lines 539 and 540 the following:

SECTION 20.1.

Chapter 47 of Title 43 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to used motor vehicles and parts dealers, is amended in Code Section 43-47-10, relating to investigations of licensees and sanctions, by revising subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) as follows:

"(B) Any of those activities described in paragraphs (1) through (5) (6) of Code Section 40-3-90; or"