Rule 560-10-15-.03 - Digital License Plate Design(1) A digital license plate provider must ensure that the digital license plate of a registered Georgia customer at all times displays an image identical to the plate image of the metal license plate issued to the vehicle owner, except as otherwise provided in this section. (a) For a black-and-white digital license plate, the requirement to display an image identical to the plate image does not include a requirement that the digital license plate duplicate the exact colors of the plate image.(2) In the portion of the plate image where a revalidation decal would be placed on a metal license plate for a currently registered vehicle, the digital license plate must display an image identical to the revalidation decal issued to the vehicle owner by the Department or its county tag agent.(3) Each digital license plate design must be designed to be readable by license plate readers and must be certified by the State Road and Tollway Authority as complying with its readability standards before the digital license plate provider may use the design on a digital license plate of a registered vehicle.(4) No part of a digital license plate, its case, its installation hardware, or any accessories sold or distributed by the digital license plate provider shall obscure any part of the plate image displayed on the digital license plate.(5) When the vehicle owner has been issued a metal license plate that must display on the bottom center of the plate a decal with either the county name or "In God We Trust," the digital license plate provider must duplicate either the county name or "In God We Trust" in the corresponding space on the digital license plate. The digital license plate provider must give the vehicle owner the option to display the county name or "In God We Trust."(6) If a vehicle owner terminates a digital license plate service with the digital license plate provider, the digital license plate provider shall remove the plate image from the digital license plate and shall cause the digital license plate to display the message "NOT A VALID LICENSE PLATE" in easily legible letters at least 0.9 inches high. After confirming that the plate meets the requirements of this paragraph, the digital license plate provider shall terminate the electronic data transmitted to the digital license plate.(7) Unless a vehicle owner cancels a digital license plate with the digital license plate provider as provided in paragraph (6), the digital license plate provider shall cause a cancelled, expired, revoked, suspended, or replaced digital license plate to display the plate image, but notwithstanding the requirements of this section, such image on the digital license plate shall be modified so that, in the space for the county name decal or the "In God We Trust" decal, the digital license plate displays the assigned word or phrase transmitted from the Department, which shall be one of the following to reflect the action taken by the Department: "cancelled," "expired," "revoked," "suspended," "replaced," or such other assigned word or phrase as directed by the Department, in capital letters of the same size and typeface as on the county name decal. The digital license plate provider may remove the assigned word or phrase from the digital license plate when directed to do so by the Department.(a) A digital license plate provider must offer Georgia customers the option of receiving notifications of a cancelled, expired, suspended, or revoked digital license plate via text message, e-mail, or notification through a computer account or computer application ("Electronic Notification"). The digital license plate provider may provide its Georgia customers with notifications through more than one of these methods of Electronic Notification, but, in any case, the immediate notification must be made through the Electronic Notification method chosen by the Georgia customer. The digital license plate provider must provide an immediate, real-time Electronic Notification to any Georgia customer whose digital license plate has been cancelled, expired, suspended, or revoked as soon as the Department notifies the digital license plate provider of such plate's status.(8) If the Department's records show that a motor vehicle is stolen and the Department directs the digital license plate provider to indicate the motor vehicle is stolen, the digital license plate provider shall cause to be displayed on the digital license plate for that motor vehicle in the space for the county name decal or the "In God We Trust" decal the word "stolen," or such other assigned word or phrase as directed by the Department, in capital letters of the same size and typeface as on the county name decal or in such other typeface as directed by the Department. The digital license plate provider may remove the assigned word or phrase from the digital license plate when directed to do so by the Department.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 560-10-15-.03
O.C.G.A. §§ 40-2-31, 40-2-57, 40-2-58, 40-2-59.1, 40-2-59.3, 40-2-136.
Original Rule entitled "Where the Owner of a Motor Vehicle Desires to Upgrade for Weight the Tag Assigned to His Motor Vehicle or Desires to Change the Tag Classification Assigned to His Motor Vehicle" adopted. F. and eff. June 30, 1965.Repealed: F. Jan. 24, 2005; eff. Feb. 13, 2005.Adopted: New Rule entitled "Digital License Plate Design." F. June 1, 2022; eff. June 21, 2022.