2025 Georgia Codes – Page 238

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful:
(1) To remove or transfer a license plate from the motor vehicle for which such license plate was issued;
(2) To sell or otherwise transfer or dispose of a license plate upon or for use on any motor vehicle other than
the vehicle for which such license plate was issued;
(3) To buy, receive, use, or possess for use on a motor vehicle any license plate not issued for use on such
motor vehicle; or
(4) To operate a motor vehicle bearing a license plate which was improperly removed or transferred from
another vehicle.
(b) Any person who shall knowingly violate any provision of subsection (a) of this Code section shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by
a fine of not less than $500.00 or by confinement for not more than 12 months, or both.
(c) It shall not be unlawful for any person to place an expired prestige license plate on the front of a motor
vehicle provided that such vehicle also bears a current valid license plate on the rear of such vehicle.

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 bear-
ing 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.

Any person who willfully covers any license plate with plastic, other material, or any part of his or her body
in order to prevent or impede the ability of surveillance equipment to clearly photograph or otherwise obtain
a clear image of the license plate is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed
$1,000.00.