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To amend Code Section 40-2-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of vehicles of the state and political subdivisions, so as to change certain provisions relating to license plate appearance; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Code Section 40-2-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of vehicles of the state and political subdivisions, is amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"(b) For all vehicles owned by the State of Georgia or any municipality or other political subdivision of this state, except those vehicles employed in covert or secret investigatory police functions to which regular Georgia license plates are issued and those vehicles owned by the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Revenue shall provide for five-year registration and issuance of regular license plates for such vehicles. The five-year license plates issued pursuant to this subsection shall be identical in appearance to regular license plates issued for private vehicles, except that such five-year license plates shall not display any year of registration or registration expiration. Such license plates may be transferred as provided for in subsection (d) of this Code section. Such five-year license plates shall be issued at the beginning of a five-year license period as for private vehicles or shall be issued at the time the vehicle is purchased by the state, and all such license plates shall expire at the same time as regular license plates."

Code Section 40-2-37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to registration and licensing of vehicles of the state and political subdivisions, is amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(b) For all vehicles owned by the State of Georgia or any municipality or other political subdivision of this state, except those vehicles employed in covert or secret investigatory police functions to which regular Georgia license plates are issued and those vehicles owned by the Department of Public Safety, the commissioner shall provide for five-year registration and issuance of regular license plates for such vehicles. The five-year license plates issued pursuant to this subsection shall be identical in appearance to regular license plates issued for private vehicles, except that such five-year license plates shall not display any year of registration or registration expiration. Such license plates may be transferred as provided for in subsection (d) of this Code section. Such five-year license plates shall be issued at the beginning of a five-year license period as for private vehicles or shall be issued at the time the vehicle is purchased by the state, and all such license plates shall expire at the same time as regular license plates."

(a) This Act shall become effective July 1, 2001, except as otherwise provided by subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Each provision amended in Part II of this Act shall become effective and supersede that respective provision amended in Part I of this Act on July 1, 2001, or on such date thereafter as that same provision, as amended by an Act approved April 28, 2000 (Ga. L. 2000, p. 951), becomes fully effective pursuant to Section 13-1 of that 2000 Act, whichever is later.