Another of Ga’s little tricks:
You are from out of state and get a traffic ticket. Never going back to Ga, so you ignore it. They find you guilty, but can not take your out of state license (no jurisdiction), so they issue you a Ga drivers license, and revoke it.
The revocation shows up next time you go to renew your license, or if stopped on another traffic violation anywhere in the country. Gets real expensive and painful to get the revocation removed.
Another of Ga’s little tricks:
You are from out of state and get a traffic ticket. Never going back to Ga, so you ignore it. They find you guilty, but can not take your out of state license (no jurisdiction), so they issue you a Ga drivers license, and revoke it.
The revocation shows up next time you go to renew your license, or if stopped on another traffic violation anywhere in the country. Gets real expensive and painful to get the revocation removed.
One of the sites I visited was looking for people to include in a class action suit. You are right about the double Jeopardy thing. How can you respond to a ticket in the mail that you didn’t know was coming and never reaches you, BTW? And if you are from out-of-state, ignorance of the law IS an excuse.
On the out of state thing. When GA suspends you they also notify your state of the suspension and update the NDR/PDPS (National Driving Registry/Problem Driver Pointer System) operated by the federal gov’t. So when you renew your license, update it, your state checks the NDR/PDPS and if your name is there, no new license. And your state may decide to suspend you as well until business with GA is taken care of too.
Also with GA, their window tint law applies to out of state vehicles too.
I drove through GA last January and knew about the super-speeder fine. I kept my speed at 80, not bothered but was pulled over in TN for 81 in a 70 mph by a local. There was a lot of traffic from FL/GA border to TN/GA border on I-75. Saw much more local cops on the interstate than GA State Patrol.
> You are from out of state and get a traffic ticket. Never going back to Ga, so you ignore it. They find you guilty, but can not take your out of state license (no jurisdiction), so they issue you a Ga drivers license, and revoke it.
> The revocation shows up next time you go to renew your license, or if stopped on another traffic violation anywhere in the country. Gets real expensive and painful to get the revocation removed.