{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-2-6","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 40-2-6","heading":"Alteration of license plates; operation of vehicle with altered or improperly transferred plate.","body":"Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who shall willfully mutilate, obliterate, deface, alter, change, or conceal any numeral, letter, character, county designation, or other marking of any license plate issued under the motor vehicle registration laws of this state; who shall knowingly operate a vehicle bearing a license plate on which any numeral, letter, character, county designation, or other marking has been willfully mutilated, obliterated, defaced, altered, changed, or concealed; or who shall knowingly operate a vehicle bearing a license plate issued for another vehicle and not properly transferred as provided by law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.","path":["TITLE 40 Motor Vehicles and Traffic","CHAPTER 2 Registration and Licensing of Motor Vehicles","Article 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.40.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"adc5b0427f4f0a39a54c823f3d3cbd27f0d4c3d7b6060efd1a4e67a9d339a71b","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-2-5","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-2-6.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}