{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-3-22","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 40-3-22","heading":"Examination of records.","body":"(a) The commissioner or the commissioner’s duly authorized county tag agent, upon receiving application for a first certificate of title, shall check the identifying number of the vehicle shown in the application against the records of vehicles required to be maintained by Code Section 40-3-23 and against the record of stolen and converted vehicles required to be maintained by Code Section 40-3-5.\n(b) Subsection (a) of this Code section shall not be applicable to an application for the first certificate of title of a new car or a demonstrator when such application is accompanied by a manufacturer’s certificate of origin.","path":["TITLE 40 Motor Vehicles and Traffic","CHAPTER 3 Certificates of Title, Security Interests, and Liens","Article 2 Certificates of Title"],"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":"27e32ad4ce1adcca00ec867335ea8bf50eda9231e3528302fd9a52b2ace26495","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-3-21.1","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-40-3-23"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}