Titles are required for any 1986 & newer year model motor vehicle, travel trailers, car/tow dollies (weighing 2,001 lbs or more), motorcycles and campers. Titles are also required for any 1963 & newer mobile or manufactured homes.
Titles not required for 1962 or older year model vehicles. Also not requiring a title are:
Agricultural, horticultural or livestock raising equipment or vehicles not required to be registered.
Airplanes, aircraft
All terrain & off-road vehicles
Boats, watercraft, and boat trailers
Buses owned & operated by an urban transit system
Cranes
Driver education vehicles used in public or private schools
Fifth wheel trailers/campers/tow dollies
Homemade car/trailers/tow dollies
Mopeds
Nonresidents’ vehicles (vehicles owned by non-Georgia residents)
Pole trailers
Tow dollies (car) weighing 2,000 lbs or less
Trailers weighing 2,000 lbs or less
Vehicles not manufactured for highway use
Titles Optional
Vehicles purchased on or after March 1, 2013 and titled in this state are exempt from sales and use tax and the annual ad valorem tax. Instead, these vehicles are subject to TAVT.
You can title a 1963-1985 year model vehicles if all three (below) apply:
You have a title issued in your name;
The owner on the front of the title has assigned the title to you;
The owner on the front of the title has assigned the title to a dealer and the dealer has assigned the title to you.
You cannot title a 1963-1985 year model vehicle if:
The vehicle has been registered in someone else’s name(s) other than the owner(s) shown on the face of the last Georgia title.
What if title isn’t available for a 1986 or newer model vehicle?
If the vehicle owner does not have the correct reassigned title to obtain a Georgia title in their name, a Georgia title may be obtained on the basis of a title/surety bond.
For additional information, please see the GA Department of Revenue portal:
GA Department of Revenue – Motor Vehicles