Georgia § 40-9-7 - Surrender of license after suspension.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 40-9-7 — Surrender of license after suspension., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 40-9-7. Surrender of license after suspension.
Any person whose driver's license shall have been suspended under any provision of this chapter shall immediately return his or her license to the department. If any person shall fail to return such license to the department, the department shall direct any peace officer to secure possession thereof and to return it to the department. Any person willfully failing to return his or her driver's license as required in subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ga. L. 1951, p. 565, § 14; Code 1933, § 68C-702, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 334, § 20-1/HB 501.)
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