2025 Georgia Codes – Page 261

(a) The application for a commercial driver’s license or commercial driver’s instruction permit shall include
the following:
(1) The full legal name and current mailing and residential address of the person;
(2) A physical description of the person including sex, height, weight, and eye color;
(3) Full date of birth;
(4) Reserved;
(5) The person’s signature;
(6) The person’s current photograph;
(7) Certifications, including those required by 49 C.F.R. Part 383.71(a);
(8) Any other information required by the department; and
(9) Consent to release driving record information to the Commercial Driver License Information System
clearing-house and whatever agent or agency the Commercial Driver License Information System deems
necessary by federal requirements.
Each application shall be accompanied by an application fee of $35.00, except for those who operate or are
applying to operate a public school bus and inmates of state or county correctional institutions who operate
or are applying to operate commercial motor vehicles under the supervision of such institutions during the
period of such inmates’ confinement, in which cases there shall be no application fee.
(b) When a licensee changes his or her name, mailing address, or residence, an application for a new license
shall be made within 30 days of such change. The fee for such new license shall be as provided in Code Sec-
tion 40-5-25.
(c) No person who has been a resident of this state for 30 days or longer may drive a commercial motor
vehicle under the authority of a commercial driver’s license issued by another jurisdiction. It shall be the
responsibility of the employer to notify the employee of the license issuance law of this state.
(d) Except as provided in Code Section 40-5-36, relating to veterans’ licenses and except as provided in this
Code section for public school bus drivers, there shall be no exceptions to the application and licenses fees
required for issuance of a commercial driver’s license or a commercial driver’s instruction permit.

Transportation Security Administration of the United States Department of Homeland Security.
(2) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (c) of this Code section, every veteran’s, honorary, or dis-
tinctive license shall expire on the licensee’s birthday in the eighth year following the issuance thereof. The
department may allow a veteran, honorary, or distinctive license holder to retain his or her expired veter-
an’s, honorary, or distinctive license as a souvenir.
(3) Every driver’s license shall be renewed on or before its expiration date upon application, payment of the
required fee, and, if applicable, satisfactory completion of the examination required by subsection (c) of this
Code section. Nothing in this Code section shall be interpreted as affecting the rights and privileges of any
person holding a veteran’s, honorary, or distinctive license, or authorizing the imposition of a charge or fee
for the issuance or renewal of such licenses.
(4) The commissioner shall issue such rules and regulations as are required to enforce this subsection.
(b) An application for driver’s license renewal may be submitted by means of:
(1) Personal appearance before the department; or
(2) Subject to rules or regulations of the department which shall be consistent with considerations of public
safety and efficiency of service to licensees, means other than such personal appearance which may include
without limitation by mail or electronically. The department may by such rules or regulations exempt per-
sons renewing drivers’ licenses under this paragraph from the license surrender requirement of subsection
(c) of Code Section 40-5-20.
(c)(1) The department shall require every person who is age 64 or older applying for issuance or renewal of a
driver’s license to take and pass successfully such test of his or her eyesight as the department shall pre-
scribe.
(2) The commissioner may issue such rules and regulations as are necessary to implement this subsection.
(d)(1) Notice of driver’s license renewal issued by the department pursuant to this Code section shall be
satisfied by electronic means when:
(A) The license holder consents to receive notifications and communications electronically pursuant to
the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) of this subsection; and
(B) The department includes any record of transmission of any electronic notification or communication
to the license holder in the records of the department for such license holder.
(2) The department shall be authorized to utilize electronic notifications and communications for any
license holder who agrees to a statement which reads:
“I AGREE TO RECEIVE ALL NOTIFICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR DRIVER’S
LICENSE RENEWALS ELECTRONICALLY.”
(3) If the department becomes aware that an electronic notification or communication was not trans-
mitted to a license holder, the department shall send the notification or communication as otherwise
required by applicable law.
(4) The department shall retain a record pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 10, the “Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act,” of any electronic notification or communication sent pursuant to this subsection.
Such record shall be retrievable by the department for a period of ten years after the date such electronic
notification or communication was sent.
(5) A license holder may withdraw his or her consent to receive notifications and communications by elec-
tronic means upon a method established by the department for such purpose pursuant to rule or regula-
tion.
(6) Any notification or communication sent by electronic means pursuant to this subsection shall comply
with the requirements set forth in Chapter 12 of Title 10, the “Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.”