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DUI law in Georgia
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Georgia concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- 30 calendar days from issuance or service of the 1205/1205S notice of intent to suspend; the appeal must be received or postmarked within that period.
- This deadline applies to administrative licence or implied-consent suspensions under O.C.G.A. § 40-5-67.1. It is tied to the notice—not a general deadline measured from arrest or a criminal-court date.
- The rule requires a complete, signed hearing request and a $150 nonrefundable filing fee. A timely date alone does not make an incomplete request sufficient.
- Missing the appeal deadline ordinarily waives the hearing. If DDS decides that the request was untimely, the rule separately allows a written reconsideration request received or postmarked within five calendar days after that decision, with supporting documentation. This is not an automatic extension of the original deadline.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- Georgia DDS accepts administrative licence-suspension hearing requests online, by mail or at a DDS Customer Service Center.
- DDS requires a complete hearing request and payment of the appropriate fees within the applicable appeal period. Its guidance warns that an incomplete or late request will be rejected and the right to appeal waived.
- For licensed drivers, the online route is through Online Services, then Other Services and the Hearing Request option. Mailing addresses depend on the reason for appeal; DDS lists the addresses on its official instructions.
- Attorneys have a separate online hearing-request route and may also submit by mail or at a Customer Service Center.
- This DDS instruction page does not state a numeric appeal deadline. The request methods do not extend the applicable filing period.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Georgia
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Georgia in detail
8 further Georgia topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.