Article 122 — the License-Plate Regime and Its Sanctions
State license plates are the backbone of vehicle identification: the plate is what links a vehicle to its registration, its holder and the data produced by video enforcement. Article 122 of the Code of Administrative Offences protects exactly this regime, and it attaches a separate sanction to each specific conduct — from driving with a plate fixed behind the windscreen to driving with another vehicle's plates or with plates that have been disguised or altered. If your case falls under this article, the decisive question is which part corresponds to which conduct, because that alone determines the amount of the fine.
Part 1 provides for a fine of 100 GEL where a vehicle is driven with a state plate fixed on the windscreen or with only one plate, front or rear. Part 2 sets a fine of 300 GEL for driving a vehicle that is not registered in the prescribed manner. Part 3 aggravates these two violations: any repeated commission of either is punished with 600 GEL. The next group is stricter: driving without a pair of plates, with the plates of another vehicle, or with disguised or otherwise altered plates carries a fine of 2 000 GEL, and so does driving a vehicle that has been removed from registration as a result of write-off under the legislation of Georgia. A repeated commission of either of these raises the sanction to 2 500 GEL.
Each of these amounts is a stand-alone sanction, and folding them into a single range is legally groundless: the qualification must always rest on a specific part. In practice this is precisely where errors creep in — for instance, driving with one lost plate gets reclassified as driving with an altered plate, which multiplies the amount imposed several times over. Correcting that requires a careful analysis of the case file, and it is the earliest point at which a lawyer can change the outcome.