Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 560-10-15-.07 — Digital License Plate Provider Requirements

(1) A digital license plate provider must execute a written contract with the Department before it may begin issuing digital license plates for motor vehicles titled or registered in Georgia. (2) The Department may only grant the intellectual property rights, including any copyrights, that it has obtained from specialty plate sponsors. The Department does not guarantee or warrant that the digital license plate provider will be approved to display all Georgia license plate designs. With respect to sponsored specialty plates, it is the responsibility of the digital license plate provider to obtain from the plate's sponsor and from the owners of any intellectual property contained in the license plate design the written approval to display and permission to use the digital license plate provider's design, including the use of the colors or shades to be displayed on the digital license plate. Evidence of such approvals satisfactory to the Department must be provided before the Department will send the design to the State Road and Tollway Authority for certification. (3) A digital license plate provider must ensure that its system of sending instructions or data to its digital license plates updates the plates in real time and causes the plates to meet the display requirements of this Subject in real time. (4) A digital license plate provider shall establish a password-protected portal to its license plate management system for the Department so that the Department may at any time confirm in real time the digital license plates that have been issued for vehicles titled or registered in Georgia, the identity of the vehicles, the customers to which such digital license plates have been issued, and the current image displayed on the digital license plate. (a) The digital license plate provider shall maintain the portal in good working order at all times and provide the Department with training and written guidance explaining the features of the portal. (b) The digital license plate provider shall provide the Department with reasonable notice at least 72 hours in advance of any scheduled service outage of the portal and include in the notice the period and purpose of such outage. (5) Every digital license plate provider shall maintain a record, in the form the Department prescribes, of every digital license plate issued, received, bought, sold, or exchanged by the provider for a vehicle titled or registered in Georgia. As part of its electronic records, a digital license plate provider shall maintain a record for each digital license plate of all instructions sent to a digital license plate and the time and date such instructions were sent. In addition, if the digital license plate sends any signal, data, or communication back to the digital license plate provider, the digital license plate provider shall maintain a record of all such communications, including the time and date of each such received communication. All such records shall be kept for three years and shall be open to inspection by a representative of the Department during reasonable business hours. Cite as Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 560-10-15-.07 Authority: O.C.G.A. §§ 40-2-58 , 40-2-59.1 , 40-2-59.3 . History. Original Rule entitled "Digital License Plate Provider Requirements" adopted. F. June 1, 2022; eff. June 21, 2022.