As used in this title, the term: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Human Resources. (2) 'Commissioner' means the commissioner of human resources. ...

(a) No person shall distribute, sell, exchange, deliver, or have in his possession with intent to distribute, sell, exchange, or deliver in this state any prescription eyeglass frame or ...

Reserved. ...

Reserved. ...

Reserved. ...

(a)(1) Subject to availability of funds voluntarily donated and transmitted to the department for such purposes pursuant to subsection (e) of Code Section 40-5-25, the department shall develop a ...

(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to ensure the registration by the department of disabled newborn persons in order that all such persons might obtain referral ...

(a) The General Assembly finds, determines, and declares: (1) That hearing loss occurs in newborn infants more frequently than any other health condition for which newborn ...

(a) It shall be the public policy of this state that newborn infants in certain high-risk categories be evaluated for the detection of hearing impairments in order to prevent ...

(a) Any person who shall make, utter, execute, or submit to the department or to any county board of health any oral or written representation, knowing the same to ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'wearing apparel' includes eyeglasses, hearing aids, clothing, and similar items worn on the person of the employee. (b) ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Heart pacemaker' means any electrical device which stimulates the heart muscle so that it contracts at ...

(a) Every complete upper and lower denture and removable permanent partial denture fabricated by a dentist licensed in Georgia shall be marked with the name or social security number ...

(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term 'special facility' means any of the following facilities: (1) A facility utilized for the diagnosis, care, ...

The breast-feeding of a baby is an important and basic act of nurture which should be encouraged in the interests of maternal and child health. A mother may breast-feed ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Commissioner' means the commissioner of human resources. (2) 'Dead body' means a human body or ...

(a) Whoever assumes the custody of a live born infant of unknown parentage shall report on a form and in a manner prescribed by the state registrar within ten ...

(a) When a certificate of birth of a person born in this state has not been filed before that person´s first birthday, a delayed certificate of birth may be ...

(a) If a delayed certificate of birth is rejected under the provisions of Code Section 31-10-11, a petition signed and sworn to by the petitioner may be filed with ...

(a) For each adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state, the court shall require the preparation of a report of adoption on a form prescribed ...

(a) The state registrar shall establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in this state when the state registrar receives the following: (1) ...

(a) A certificate of death for each death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in which the death occurred or ...

(a) A person may be pronounced dead by a qualified physician, or by a registered professional nurse authorized to make a pronouncement of death under Code Section 31-7-176.1, if ...

(a) When a death certificate is filed with a local registrar, it shall be transmitted to the State Office of Vital Records for state registration immediately upon receipt. After ...

(a) A report of spontaneous fetal death for each spontaneous fetal death which occurs in this state shall be filed with the local registrar of the county in which ...

Each induced termination of pregnancy which occurs in this state, regardless of the length of gestation or weight, shall be reported directly to the department within ten days by ...

There is hereby established within the department the State Office of Vital Records which shall maintain and operate the statés official vital records registration system. The system shall be ...

(a) The funeral director or person acting as such or other person who first assumes custody of a dead body or fetus shall obtain a disposition permit for cremation ...

(a) A record of each marriage performed in this state shall be filed with the department and shall be registered if it has been completed and filed in accordance ...

(a) A record of each divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment granted by any court of competent jurisdiction in this state shall be filed by the clerk of the ...

(a) Unless otherwise specified by law, a certificate or report registered under this chapter may be amended in accordance with this chapter and regulations adopted by the department to ...

(a) The department is responsible for the preservation or disposition of all vital records at state or county offices. To preserve vital records, the state registrar is authorized to ...

(a) To protect the integrity of vital records, to ensure their proper use, and to ensure the efficient and proper administration of the system of vital records, it shall ...

(a) In accordance with Code Section 31-10-25 and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto: (1) The state registrar or local custodian of vital records appointed by the ...

(a) The department shall prescribe uniform fees to be paid to the State Office of Vital Records, local registrars, and local custodians for certified copies of certificates or records, ...

(a) Every person in charge of an institution shall keep a record of personal data concerning each person admitted or confined to such institution. This record shall include such ...

(a) Any person having knowledge or facts concerning any birth, death, spontaneous fetal death, marriage, induced termination of pregnancy, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment may disclose such facts ...

The department is authorized to adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. ...

(a) To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the state registrar is authorized to match birth and ...

(a) A fine of not more than $10,000.00 or imprisonment of not more than five years, or both, shall be imposed on: (1) Any person who ...

The department may, by regulation and upon such conditions as it may prescribe to assure compliance with the purposes of this chapter, provide for the extension of the periods ...

The commissioner shall appoint the state registrar of vital records, hereinafter referred to as 'state registrar,' subject to the rules and regulations of the State Merit System of Personnel ...

(a) The state registrar shall: (1) Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this chapter and issue instructions ...

(a) The state registrar may appoint a local registrar and local custodian for each county and a special abstracting agent as necessary. Appointees must meet the qualifications and perform ...

(a) In order to promote and maintain nation-wide uniformity in the system of vital records, the forms of certificates and reports required by this chapter, or by regulations adopted ...

(a) The local registrar shall certify to the treasurer of the county each month the number of birth and death certificates and spontaneous fetal death reports filed with the ...

(a) Social security account information of the mother and father, if paternity is acknowledged by the father, of a child born within this state shall be entered in the ...

(a) A certificate of birth for each live birth which occurs in this state shall be filed with the State Office of Vital Records within five days after such ...

(a) The General Assembly finds and determines: (1) That the furnishing of emergency medical services is a matter of substantial importance to the people of this ...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting or preventing a municipality from fixing, charging, or assessing any license fee or registration fee on any business or profession ...

This chapter shall not apply to the following: (1) An ambulance or ambulance service operated by an agency of the United States government; ...

Medical directors of licensed ambulance services, first responders, or neonatal services are authorized to contract with licensed pharmacies to furnish dangerous drugs and controlled substances for the vehicles of ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Air ambulance' means any rotary-wing aircraft used or intended to be used for hire for transportation of sick ...

(a) The Board of Human Resources shall have the authority on behalf of the state to designate and contract with a public or nonprofit local entity to coordinate and ...

(a) No person shall operate an ambulance service in this state without having a valid license or provisional license issued by the license officer pursuant to this chapter. ...

(a) Every ambulance service, whether privately operated or operated by any political subdivision of the state or any municipality, as a condition of maintaining a valid license shall pay ...

An application for a license or provisional license shall be made to the license officer. The application shall be made upon forms prescribed by the license officer and shall ...

(a) The license officer shall, within ten days after receipt of an application for a license or provisional license as provided for in this article, cause such investigation as ...

(a) Every ambulance operated on the streets, highways, and private access roads of this state by persons engaged in providing ambulance service shall have insurance coverage issued by an ...

Ambulances operated by persons engaged in providing ambulance service shall meet all standards as set forth in the department́s rules and regulations. ...

(a) Renewal of any license issued under this article shall require conformance with the requirements of this article as upon original licensing. (b) Change of ownership ...

(a) Any license issued under this article may be suspended or revoked for a failure of a licensee to comply and to maintain compliance with this article or rules ...

The board or its designee shall exercise continuing supervision over the operations of the EMSC Program in each health district and shall make all necessary modifications in accord with ...

(a) The department is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the protection of the public health: (1) Prescribing reasonable health, sanitation, and safety ...

(a) To enhance the provision of emergency medical care, each ambulance service shall be required to have a medical adviser. The adviser shall be a physician licensed to practice ...

The board shall, by regulation, authorize the department to establish procedures and standards for certifying and recertifying emergency medical technicians. The department shall succeed to all rules and regulations, ...

(a) The department shall establish procedures and standards for certifying and recertifying paramedics and cardiac technicians. An applicant for initial certification as a paramedic or a cardiac technician must: ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Automated external defibrillator' means a defibrillator which: (A) Is capable of cardiac rhythm ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'lay rescuer' means a person trained to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to use an automated external defibrillator, as defined in ...

(a) Upon certification by the department, emergency medical technicians may do any of the following: (1) Render first-aid and resuscitation services as taught in the United ...

(a) Upon certification by the department, paramedics may perform any service that a cardiac technician is permitted to perform. In addition, upon the order of a duly licensed physician ...

(a) Upon certification by the department, cardiac technicians may do any of the following: (1) Render first-aid and resuscitation services; (2) Upon the ...

Certificates issued to emergency medical technicians pursuant to this chapter may be revoked for good cause, as set forth in the rules and regulations, by the department after notice ...

Certificates issued to paramedics and cardiac technicians pursuant to this chapter may be revoked for good cause by the department in accordance with established rules and regulations, after notice ...

(a) The department shall be authorized to require paramedics and cardiac technicians seeking recertification under this chapter to complete department approved continuing education of not less than 40 hours ...

(a) The department shall be authorized to require emergency medical technicians seeking recertification under this chapter to complete department approved continuing education. The department shall be authorized to approve ...

Emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and cardiac technicians may render any service which they are authorized to render under Code Sections 31-11-53, 31-11-54, and 31-11-55, respectively, in any hospital. Such ...

Records of each ambulance trip shall be made by the ambulance service in a manner and on such forms as may be prescribed by the department through regulations. Such ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Ambulance service medical director' means a physician licensed to practice in this state and subject to ...

(a) Any emergency medical technician, paramedic, or cardiac technician who is certified under this article and who works for a county or municipal police department, fire department, or rescue ...

Any person who shall falsely represent himself to be a certified emergency medical technician, certified cardiac technician, or certified paramedic or who shall accept or continue in employment as ...

The driver of an ambulance on the public streets, highways, and private access roads of this state, when responding to an emergency call or while transporting a patient, is ...

(a) Any person, including agents and employees, who is licensed to furnish ambulance service and who in good faith renders emergency care to a person who is a victim ...

This article shall be known and cited as the 'Emergency Services Law.' ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Emergency condition' means any medical condition of a recent onset and severity, including but not limited to severe ...

(a) Once a person with an emergency condition presents himself or herself to an emergency medical provider for emergency services, that person shall be evaluated by medical personnel. This ...

The department and its duly authorized agents are authorized to enforce compliance with this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter as provided in Article 1 of ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Smokefree Air Act of 2005." ...

The Department of Human Resources and the county boards of health and their duly authorized agents are authorized and empowered to enforce compliance with this chapter and the rules ...

The county boards of health may annually request other governmental and educational agencies having facilities within the area of the local government to establish local operating procedures in cooperation ...

This chapter shall be cumulative to and shall not prohibit the enactment of any other general or local laws, rules, and regulations of state or local governing authorities or ...

(a) This chapter shall not be construed to permit smoking where it is otherwise restricted by other applicable laws. (b) Nothing in this chapter shall be ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Bar' means an establishment that is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on ...

Smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed facilities of, including buildings owned, leased, or operated by, the State of Georgia, its agencies and authorities, and any political subdivision of ...

Except as otherwise specifically authorized in Code Section 31-12A-6, smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed public places in this state. ...

(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in Code Section 31-12A-6, smoking shall be prohibited in all enclosed areas within places of employment, including, but not limited to, common work ...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following areas shall be exempt from the provisions of Code Sections 31-12A-4 and 31-12A-5: (1) Private residences, except ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an owner, operator, manager, or other person in control of an establishment, facility, or outdoor area may declare that entire establishment, facility, ...

(a) 'No Smoking' signs or the international 'No Smoking' symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle with a red bar across ...

The Department of Human Resources and the agency designated by each local governing authority in this state may engage in a continuing program to explain and clarify the purposes ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Radiation Control Act.' ...

(a) The Department of Natural Resources may refuse to grant a license as provided in Code Section 31-13-8 or 31-13-8.1 and the Department of Human Resources may refuse to ...

(a) In the event of an emergency, the Department of Human Resources shall have the authority to impound or order the impounding of radiation generating equipment in the possession ...

It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, assemble, distribute, produce, transport, receive, acquire, own, or possess any source of radiation required to be licensed or registered ...

(a) Any person who violates the provisions of Code Section 31-13-7 or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to such Code section, or who violates the provisions of Code ...

The director or his duly authorized representatives shall have the power to enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property for the purpose of inspection and investigation ...

The director shall have the authority to investigate any apparent violation of this chapter and to take any action authorized under this chapter as he deems necessary and may ...

Whenever the director has reason to believe that a violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter has occurred, he ...

Whenever the director finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, or well-being, the director, with the concurrence of the Governor, may issue ...

Whenever a person is aggrieved or adversely affected by any action or by any order or orders of the director, such person may request and obtain a hearing by ...

Any person who has exhausted all administrative remedies available before the director and who is aggrieved by a final order or action in a contested case is entitled to ...

It is the policy of this state, in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the environment and the public health and safety of its citizens and, to the extent ...

The director may file in the superior court of the county wherein the person under order resides or, if such person is a corporation, in the county wherein the ...

Whenever, in the judgment of the director, any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice which constitutes or will constitute any violation ...

It shall be the duty of the Attorney General or his representative to represent the director in all actions in connection with this chapter. ...

The Governor shall have the authority to transfer powers and duties enumerated in this chapter between the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Human Resources as he ...

This chapter shall not affect the validity of any judicial or administrative proceeding pending or which was commenced before April 4, 1990, and any successor department shall be substituted ...

All rules and regulations, agreements, contracts, or other instruments which involve radioactive materials heretofore under the jurisdiction of the Department of Human Resources will, by operation of law, be ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Accelerator produced radioactive material' means any material made radioactive by a particle accelerator. (1.1) 'By-product ...

The Department of Natural Resources is designated the state agency to administer a state-wide radiation control program for radioactive materials consistent with this chapter. ...

The Department of Human Resources is designated the state agency to administer a state-wide radiation control program for radiation generating equipment consistent with this chapter and any environmental laws, ...

(a) For the protection of the public health and safety, the Department of Human Resources, with regard to radiation generating equipment, and the Department of Natural Resources, with regard ...

(a) The Department of Natural Resources may require the posting of a bond not to exceed $5 million by an existing general or specific licensee by amendment to an ...

(a) No person shall construct or operate a site or other facility for the concentration, storage, or burial of radioactive waste without first securing a permit for such construction ...

The Department of Natural Resources shall establish, manage, and administer a program for the general or specific licensing of persons to use, manufacture, produce, transport, transfer, receive, acquire, own, ...

The Department of Human Resources is authorized to provide by rule or regulation for the registration and periodic renewal of registration of persons to sell, distribute, assemble, use, manufacture, ...

(a) The Governor, on behalf of this state, is authorized to enter into agreements with the federal government providing for discontinuance of certain responsibilities of the federal government with ...

(a) The Department of Human Resources and the Department of Natural Resources are authorized to require, in accordance with applicable provisions of this chapter, each person who possesses or ...

(a) As used in this chapter, the term 'active tuberculosis' means a diagnosis demonstrated by clinical, bacteriologic, or diagnostic imaging evidence, or a combination thereof. Persons who have been ...

The county boards of health or their duly authorized agents shall, within their respective limits, enforce rules and regulations adopted by the department for the protection of the public ...

Any person who leaves a hospital or facility approved by the department for the treatment of tuberculosis to which he or she has been committed by court order, without ...

No person having active tuberculosis who, in his or her home or other place, obeys the rules and regulations of the department and county boards of health for the ...

(a) In lieu of the petition for commitment as authorized by Code Section 31-14-2, the county board of health or the department may petition the court for an order ...

Any physician, peace officer, attorney, or health official, or any hospital or facility official, agent, or other person employed by a private hospital or facility or at a hospital ...

When the county board of health or the Department of Human Resources has evidence that any person has active tuberculosis and is violating the rules and regulations promulgated by ...

(a) Immediately upon the filing of a petition pursuant to Code Section 31-14-2, the judge of the superior court shall set the matter for a full and fair hearing ...

A copy of the petition and order shall be served on the person named in the petition. Any failure of such person to comply with the order or with ...

Where a danger exists that the person named in the petition may abscond or conceal himself or herself or where the person is conducting himself or herself so as ...

The person or persons appointed by the order to make the examination shall file a report thereof, in triplicate, in the court wherein the proceeding is pending. The clerk ...

(a) Upon the hearing set in the order, if the court finds that the person has active tuberculosis, is violating the rules and regulations promulgated by the department or ...

(a) If it is necessary to continue confinement of a committed patient beyond a period of two years ordered by a court or hearing examiner or authorized under subsection ...

Either party may appeal any order of the superior court or hearing examiner in a proceeding under this chapter. An order of the superior court may be appealed to ...

Upon commitment the patient shall be confined in a hospital or facility approved by the department for the care of tubercular patients for a period not to exceed two ...

(a) At any time after commitment and not more often than once every six months, the patient or any friend or relative having reason to believe that the patient ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Bone Mass Measurement Coverage Act.' ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Accident and sickness insurance benefit plan, policy, or contract' has the meaning provided by paragraph (1) of subsection ...

(a) Every group or individual accident or sickness insurance benefit plan, policy, or contract that provides hospital, medical, or surgical coverage that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in ...

(a) It is declared and found that one of the most serious and tragic problems facing the public health and welfare is the death of hundreds of persons in ...

The Department of Human Resources shall establish a program for the prevention, control, and treatment of kidney disease which shall include the care of patients suffering from chronic kidney ...

(a) The commissioner of human resources shall appoint a Kidney Disease Advisory Committee, hereinafter referred to as KDAC, to advise the department in the administration of this chapter. The ...

The commissioner shall provide staff to carry out administration of this program including, but not limited to, consultant physicians, administrative assistants, and clerical support. ...

The commissioner, with the advice of the KDAC, shall: (1) Develop standards for determining eligibility of patients for care and treatment under this program and set ...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to exclude patients with kidney disease from the benefits of any program of state or federal aid for which they might otherwise ...

(a) The physician and that physician´s patient retain the discretion to determine whether or not a kidney dialyzer should be reused. No licensed kidney dialysis clinic or provider of ...

(a) Any term used in this chapter and defined in Code Section 31-22-9.1 shall have the meaning provided for such term in Code Section 31-22-9.1. (b) ...

The authorized agent or agents of the Department of Human Resources are directed and empowered, when in their judgment it is necessary to protect the public health, to make ...

(a) If a person refuses to consent to an HIV test, as provided in Code Section 31-17A-2, the Department of Human Resources may file a civil complaint with the ...

It is the intent of the General Assembly to ensure the registration by the department of all spinal cord disabled or head-injured persons in order that all spinal cord ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Head-injured person' means a person who has sustained brain damage of traumatic or acute onset, not of a ...

Except as otherwise provided, every public and private health and social agency and every physician authorized to practice medicine in this state shall report to the Brain and Spinal ...

(a) The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission, which is administratively assigned to the department, shall establish procedures whereby a spinal cord disabled or head-injured person for whom ...

Each county board of health shall have primary responsibility for the control of rabies within its jurisdiction. Such boards, in addition to their other powers, are empowered and required ...

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

The department may declare any county or any area therein or any group of counties or areas therein where rabies exists to be an infected area and may provide ...

The governing authorities of each county and municipality are authorized and required, in the control of rabies, to require regulation or licensing of animals. ...

It shall be the duty of any person bitten by any animal reasonably suspected of being rabid immediately to notify the appropriate county board of health. It shall be ...

The county boards of health are empowered and required to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations requiring canines and felines to be inoculated against rabies and to prescribe the ...

Reserved. ...

(a) The county board of health shall appoint a person who is knowledgeable of animals to be the county rabies control officer. It shall be the duty of the ...

The governing authority of each county may devise and implement plans whereby this chapter, as amended, is administered jointly with one or more adjoining counties. ...

This chapter shall not apply to municipalities which already have a rabies control law unless and until such law is repealed. ...

The Department of Human Resources is created and established to safeguard and promote the health of the people of this state and is empowered to employ all legal means ...

The department is designated and empowered as the agency of this state to apply for, receive, and administer grants and donations for health purposes from the federal government and ...

The department, from time to time, shall make or cause to be made studies and surveys to determine the quality, scope, and reach of its programs. ...

(a) The department is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to effect prevention, abatement, and correction of situations and conditions which, if not promptly checked, would militate ...

Actions at law and in equity against the department, the board, or any of its members predicated upon omissions or acts done in their official capacity or under color ...

(a) This Code section shall be applicable to any agency, facility, institution, community living arrangement, drug abuse treatment and education program, or entity subject to regulation by the department ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Chamber system' means a system of chambers with each chamber being a molded polyolefin plastic, arch ...

The department shall provide by rule or regulation for the regulation and permitting of any land disposal site that receives septic tank waste from only one septic tank pumping ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Accredited hospital' means a hospital licensed by the Department of Human Resources and accredited by the Joint Commission ...

It shall be lawful for any physician to perform a sterilization procedure upon a person 18 years of age or over, or less than 18 years of age if ...

(a) Declaration of policy. The General Assembly finds that the present laws of this state provide no means for the performance of sterilization procedures upon persons who, because of ...

No operation under this chapter shall be performed by any person other than a physician duly licensed without restriction to practice medicine and surgery in this state pursuant to ...

When an operation shall have been performed in compliance with this chapter, no physician duly licensed without restriction to practice medicine and surgery in this state or other person ...

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall require a hospital to admit any patient for the purpose of performing a sterilization procedure, nor shall any hospital be required to appoint ...

(a) An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less than 5 percent formaldehyde gas. (b) As used in this chapter, the term 'embalming' means the injection ...

Nothing in this article shall repeal or be construed to conflict with any power and authority now vested in the Commissioner of Agriculture by the laws of this state. ...

Professors and demonstrators of anatomy and the deans of medical and dental colleges incorporated under the laws of this state shall constitute a board for the distribution and delivery ...

(a) All public officers of this state and their assistants and all officers and their deputies of every county, city, town, or other municipality and of every prison, county ...

Notice shall not be given nor shall any body be delivered pursuant to Code Section 31-21-21 if the deceased person was a traveler who died suddenly. In such cases, ...

The board for distribution or its duly authorized agent may distribute bodies received pursuant to Code Section 31-21-21 to and among the schools or colleges described in Code Section ...

The board for distribution may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21, which bodies shall be well enclosed in suitable incasements ...

No school or college shall be allowed or permitted to receive any body or bodies described in Code Section 31-21-21 until a bond shall have been given to the ...

Neither the state, county, municipality, nor officers thereof shall be placed at any expense by reason of delivery or distribution of bodies; but all expenses thereof shall be borne ...

(a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term 'infectious or communicable disease' shall include the following: (1) Infectious hepatitis; (2) Tuberculosis; ...

(a)(1) Cremated remains may be taken by boat from any harbor in this state, or by air, for burial at sea at a point not less than three miles ...

Any person having duties imposed upon him by Code Sections 31-21-20 through 31-21-24 who shall refuse or omit to perform such duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

Any person who shall sell or buy any dead human body or bodies or in any way traffic therein or transmit or convey, or procure the transmission or conveyance ...

If any person makes affidavit to facts to authorize the coroner to disinter a body or the coroner does so of his own motion and such affidavit is made ...

Any person who shall remove a dead human body from any grave or other place of interment or from any vault, tomb, sepulcher, or from any other place for ...

(a)(1) A person commits the offense of abuse of a dead body if, prior to interment and except as otherwise authorized by law, such person willfully defaces a dead ...

(a)(1) Any person who throws away or abandons any dead human body or portion of such dead body shall commit the offense of abandonment of a dead body. ...

(a) It is unlawful for any person wantonly or maliciously to: (1) Remove the dead body of a human being from any grave or other place ...

(a) After December 1, 1992, it shall be unlawful to exhibit or display to the public dead human bodies of American Indians or American Indian human remains except in ...

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to incinerate or cremate a dead body or parts thereof; provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply ...

(a) Any person who knows or has reason to believe that interred human remains have been or are being disturbed, destroyed, defaced, mutilated, removed, or exposed without a permit ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Human Resources. (2) 'Clinical laboratory' means a facility for the ...

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed or construed as affecting or repealing Chapter 23 of this title or Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44. ...

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed or construed as affecting or repealing Chapter 34 of Title 43. ...

The operation or maintenance of an unlicensed clinical laboratory in violation of this chapter is declared a nuisance, inimical to the public health, welfare, and safety. The commissioner in ...

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

(a) No clinical laboratory shall be operated without a license issued and in force pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that the department may promulgate rules and regulations by ...

(a) The department shall appoint a Clinical Laboratory, Blood Bank, and Tissue Bank Committee (hereinafter referred to as 'committee') which shall be composed of seven members whose respective terms ...

(a) A clinical laboratory shall examine human specimens only at the request of a licensed physician, dentist, or other person authorized by law to use the findings of laboratory ...

(a) Those clinical laboratories which provide a system for the collection, processing, or storage of human blood and its component parts shall provide methods for the selection of blood ...

In addition to powers conferred elsewhere in this chapter, the board shall: (1) Promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this chapter, after recommendations from the ...

(a) The department shall require reporting by clinical laboratories of evidence of such infectious diseases as the department may specify and shall furnish forms for such reporting. No clinical ...

(a) The department shall make periodic inspections of every clinical laboratory, at its discretion. In lieu of or to supplement its own inspection program, the department may use results ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'AIDS' means Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS Related Complex within the reporting criteria of the department. ...

(a) Any term used in this Code section and defined in Code Section 31-22-9.1 shall have the meaning provided for that term in Code Section 31-22-9.1. ...

(a) This chapter shall not apply to clinical laboratories which are: (1) Operated by the Medical College of Georgia, the Emory University School of Medicine, any ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Eye bank' means a nonprofit facility which is maintained and operated for the extraction, removal, care, storage, preservation, ...

Any donation of a person´s eyes or any part thereof shall be made in accordance with Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44, the 'Georgia Anatomical Gift Act.' ...

Any facility, hospital, or any medical school in conjunction with the department or school of ophthalmology of such medical school, alone or in further conjunction with other charitable organizations, ...

The department is empowered to approve or disapprove the establishment of an eye bank by any group desiring to establish one in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by ...

(a) Upon the death of any donor, the persons holding a donor´s unrevoked instrument of donation and maintaining and operating the donee eye bank may authorize any physician, or ...

(a)(1) Upon the request of any approved eye bank in any case in which a patient is in need of an eye for a transplant, a physician performing an ...

In no event shall any donor or donor´s estate incur any liability for any expense connected with or resulting from the donation, extraction, removal, care, preservation, storage, or use ...

Nothing in this chapter shall affect, interfere with, or change presently existing methods of the medical or scientific operation, treatment, examination, or instruction pertaining to the eyes of human ...

(a) It shall be unlawful: (1) For any person to sell either his eyes or any parts thereof or the eyes or any parts thereof of ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as 'The Blood Labeling Act.' ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Blood' means whole human blood, packed red blood cells, blood platelets, concentrated leucocytes, and blood plasma. It does ...

No blood may be withdrawn from any individual in this state for transfusion or industrial uses unless he qualifies to be a blood donor under the laws of this ...

(a) Every person who withdraws blood from an individual or separates blood into components by physical processes shall affix to each container of such blood or components a label ...

(a) No person may administer blood by transfusion in this state or transfer or offer to transfer blood for transfusion purposes by any type of transaction unless the container ...

Blood and blood components, including salvage plasma, may be used and transferred for industrial uses without regard to whether its original acquisition was by purchase or donation. ...

The department shall administer this chapter as a part of and using the procedures of Chapter 22 of this title. ...

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

Reserved. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Midwife' means any person not licensed under the laws of this state to practice obstetrics who is regularly ...

(a) No person shall practice midwifery without first receiving from the Department of Human Resources a certificate of authority as provided in this Code section and registering his or ...

The department shall have the authority and power to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may appear necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of this ...

A certificate issued under this chapter shall not confer upon any person the right to practice medicine; to prescribe or administer drugs; to undertake charge of abnormal cases of ...

It shall be unlawful for any person holding a certificate as a midwife to attend any cases other than those of normal childbirth or to perform any internal examinations ...

The department and county boards of health and their duly authorized agents are authorized and empowered to enforce compliance with this chapter and rules and regulations adopted and promulgated ...

Any violation of this chapter or any rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under this chapter is declared to be a public nuisance subject to abatement as provided in ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Mass gathering' means any event likely to attract 5,000 or more persons and to continue for 15 or ...

This chapter shall not apply to: (1) Any mass gathering which is to be held in any regularly established permanent place of worship, athletic field, auditorium, ...

(a) Any person who is found by any agency or department after a hearing to have violated any provision of this chapter or duly promulgated supplementary rules and regulations ...

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

No person shall hold or promote, by advertising or otherwise, a mass gathering unless a permit has been issued for the gathering. Such permits shall be issued by the ...

Application for a permit to promote or hold a mass gathering shall be made to the department on a form and in a manner prescribed by the department by ...

(a) Prior to the issuance of a permit, the applicant must: (1) Provide a plan for limiting attendance, including methods of entering the area, number and ...

The person holding or promoting a mass gathering shall provide a bond of $1 million issued by a surety company authorized to transact business in this state. The purpose ...

The person promoting or holding a mass gathering shall be assessed at the rate of $5.00 for each person in attendance beyond the number specified in the application for ...

In the event the commissioner of human resources determines that the various facilities appropriate for security of life or health are inadequate due to the unprecedented size of the ...

Any department or agency of the state which assumes the obligations of any person who has defaulted under this chapter may maintain an action at law to recover actual ...

The department is authorized to adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as may appear necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. ...

As used in this chapter, the term 'tourist court' means: (1) Any facility consisting of two or more rooms or dwelling units providing lodging and other ...

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to operate a tourist court without having first obtained a valid permit therefor. Such permit shall be issued by ...

The county boards of health may suspend or revoke permits where the health, sanitation, and safety of the public require such action. When, in the judgment of such board ...

Any person substantially affected by any final order of the county board of health denying, suspending, revoking, or refusing to renew any permit provided under this chapter may secure ...

(a) The Department of Human Resources and county boards of health shall have the power to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to ensure the protection of the public ...

The Department of Human Resources and the county boards of health and their duly authorized agents are authorized and empowered to enforce compliance with this chapter and the rules ...

Any person, firm, or corporation operating a tourist court without a valid permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

Any employee of any state institution, agency, or department charged with the care, treatment, or diagnosis of persons infected with tuberculosis or infectious hepatitis who contracts tuberculosis or infectious ...

(a) In order for any employee of any state institution, agency, or department to be eligible to receive compensation under Code Section 31-29-1, he shall undergo a physical examination ...

Any institution, agency, or department having employees qualifying for compensation under Code Section 31-29-1 may require periodic physical examinations of such employees to determine if each such employee has ...

If an employee of any state institution, agency, or department elects to retire under the Employees´ Retirement System of Georgia, if eligible to do so at the time it ...

In the event the employee is not eligible or does not elect to retire under the Employees´ Retirement System of Georgia, if eligible to do so after contracting tuberculosis ...

Any employee of any state institution, agency, or department who qualifies under Code Section 31-29-1 shall be given credit for all salary adjustments and the same eligibility for step ...

The superintendent or director having the legal authority to appoint employees of any state institution, agency, or department affected by Code Section 31-29-1 is authorized to adopt and promulgate ...

It is declared to be the specific intent of Code Section 31-29-1 that the employees of the Central State Hospital, Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital, and Reidsville State Prison be ...

There is established a county board of health in each and every county of this state. ...

The county board of health may require the legal services of the county attorney or, its budget permitting, may employ other counsel to assist in performing its duties. ...

(a) The county board of health shall appoint as its chief executive officer a director who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine under Chapter 34 of Title ...

In addition to any other power authorized by law, the county governing authority may authorize the county board of health to enter into a contract with the department or ...

Subject to the policies and directives of the county board of health and the policies and directives of the multiple county districts served, the director shall perform the functions ...

No population area or unit of this state shall be without health services responsive to its needs. Because it is recognized that all counties are not equally able to ...

The county board of health, at a regular or called meeting, at a time appropriate to the fiscal operation of the county, shall determine and fix the amount of ...

The department is authorized, with the consent of the boards of health and the county authorities of the counties involved, to establish health districts comprised of one or more ...

It is not the intent of this chapter to abrogate the terms of a municipal charter or laws of local application which authorize a governing body within the county ...

(a) This Code section shall apply only to those counties of this state having a population of 800,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 2000 ...

(a) Each county board of health shall be composed of seven members as follows: (1) One member shall be the chief executive officer of the governing authority ...

The county board of health shall keep the department informed of the names, addresses, and terms of office of its members. ...

(a) The county board of health is empowered to: (1) Establish and adopt bylaws for its own governance. Meetings shall be held no less frequently than ...

No building permit for the construction of any residence, building, or other facility which is to be served by a sewage management system shall be issued by or pursuant ...

(a) Subject to the provisions of Code Section 31-2-7 and subsection (b) of this Code section, each county board of health shall have and discharge, within its jurisdiction, subject ...

The county board of health shall have authority to establish rules and regulations which apply to all citizens and premises of the county or to specified areas and citizens ...

Members of county boards of health shall be paid not more than $25.00 per day for their attendance at meetings of the board, provided funds therefor have been established ...

The county board of health shall record and preserve true and correct minutes of its proceedings in a book kept for that purpose and shall maintain or cause to ...

The governing body of the county shall provide the county board of health with quarters and equipment sufficient for its operation. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Agent Orange' means the herbicide composed primarily of trichlorophenoxyacetic acid and dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. (2) 'Veteran' ...

(a) A physician who has primary responsibility for treating a veteran who believes he may have been exposed to chemical defoliants or herbicides or other causative agents, including but ...

(a) The department, in consultation and cooperation with a board certified medical toxicologist, shall compile and evaluate information submitted under this chapter into a report to be distributed annually ...

The identity of a veteran about whom a report has been made under Code Section 31-30-2 or 31-30-3 may not be disclosed unless the veteran consents to the disclosure. ...

A physician or a hospital subject to this chapter who complies with this chapter may not be held civilly or criminally liable for providing the information required by this ...

The Attorney General may represent a class of individuals composed of veterans who may have been injured because of contact with chemical defoliants or herbicides or other causative agents, ...

(a) The department and the health science centers and other medical facilities of the University System of Georgia shall institute a cooperative program to: (1) Refer veterans ...

If the commissioner determines that an agency of the federal government is performing the referral and screening functions required by Code Section 31-30-7, the commissioner may discontinue any program ...

This chapter shall become effective when and to the extent that funds are appropriated and available to the Department of Human Resources under an appropriation which specifically refers to ...

Reserved. ...

(a) The General Assembly finds that modern medical technology has made possible the artificial prolongation of human life. (b) The General Assembly further finds that, in ...

Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, alters, or damages the living will of another without such declarant´s consent or who witnesses a living will knowing at the ...

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall impair or supersede any legal right or legal responsibility which any person may have to effect the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures ...

This chapter is wholly independent of the provisions of Title 53, relating to wills, trusts, and the administration of estates, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Attending physician' means the physician who has been selected by or assigned to the patient and who has ...

(a) Any competent adult may execute a document directing that, should the declarant have a terminal condition, life-sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn. Such living will shall be signed ...

A living will shall have no force or effect if the declarant is a patient in a hospital or skilled nursing facility at the time the living will is ...

(a) A living will may be revoked at any time by the declarant, without regard to his mental state or competency, by any of the following methods: ...

(a) A living will executed on or after March 28, 1986, shall be effective from the date of execution thereof unless revoked in a manner prescribed in Code Section ...

(a) No physician nor any person acting under his direction and no hospital, skilled nursing facility, nor any agent or employee thereof who acting in good faith in accordance ...

(a) Prior to effecting a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a patient pursuant to a living will, the attending physician: (1) Shall determine that, ...

(a) The making of a living will pursuant to this chapter shall not, for any purpose, constitute a suicide. (b) The making of a living will ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Patient' means any person who has received health care services from a provider. (2) 'Provider' ...

(a)(1)(A) A provider having custody and control of any evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, laboratory report, or biopsy slide in a patient´s record shall retain such item for a period of ...

(a) The party requesting the patient´s records shall be responsible to the provider for the costs of copying and mailing the patient´s record. A charge of up to $20.00 ...

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records of a patient. ...

Any provider releasing information in good faith pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be civilly or criminally liable to the patient, guardian, parent, or any other ...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as destroying or diminishing the privileged or confidential nature of any communication now or hereafter recognized by law. ...

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 31-33-4, if a law enforcement officer employed by a governmental entity is required to submit to a psychological or psychiatric examination for ...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, any provider may, in its sole discretion, create, maintain, transmit, receive, and store records in an electronic format ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Physicians for Rural Areas Assistance Act.' ...

It is the purpose of this chapter to increase the number of physicians in physician underserved rural areas of Georgia by making loans to young physicians who recently completed ...

This chapter shall be administered by the State Medical Education Board, and, as used in this chapter, the word 'board' means the State Medical Education Board created in Code ...

(a) A physician who receives a loan under the program provided for in this chapter shall be licensed to practice medicine within the State of Georgia at the time ...

(a) The board shall have the authority to grant to each applicant approved by the board on a one-year renewable basis a service cancelable loan for a period not ...

(a) Before being granted a service cancelable loan provided for in this chapter, each applicant therefor shall enter into a contract with the State of Georgia agreeing to the ...

The board shall have the authority to cancel the contract of any recipient of a loan under this chapter for cause deemed sufficient by the board, provided that such ...

The funds necessary to carry out the loan program authorized by this chapter may come from funds made available to the board from private, federal, or state sources. Funds ...

The board shall make a biennial report to the General Assembly of its activities under the provisions of this chapter. Such report shall include the name of each recipient ...

The General Assembly finds and declares that, by reason of their employment, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, and public safety officers are required to work in the midst of and ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Bioterrorism' means the intentional use, to cause or attempt to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in ...

(a) The department shall offer a vaccination program for emergency responders who may be exposed to infectious diseases when deployed to a disaster location. The program shall include diseases ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Emergency medical technician' means an emergency medical technician as defined in Code Section 31-11-2. (2) ...

Any active firefighter, emergency medical technician, or public safety officer who may be exposed to hepatitis B or hepatitis C during a period while the firefighter, emergency medical technician, ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Temporary Health Care Placement Decision Maker for an Adult Act.' ...

(a) The General Assembly recognizes that there may be occasions when an adult has not made advance arrangements for a situation when he or she is unable to consent ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Absence of a person authorized to consent' means that: (A) After diligent efforts for a ...

This chapter shall not apply to involuntary examination and hospitalization for treatment of mental illness, which shall continue to be governed by Title 37. ...

An attending physician, treating physician, or other physician licensed according to the laws of the State of Georgia, after having personally examined an adult, may certify in the adult´s ...

(a) Upon a physician´s certification pursuant to Code Section 31-36A-5, and in addition to such other persons as may be otherwise authorized and empowered, any one of the following ...

(a) In the absence of a person authorized to consent under the provisions of Code Section 31-36A-6, any interested person or persons, including, but not limited to, any authority, ...

Reserved. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'CFR' means Code of Federal Regulations. (1.1) 'Consumer' means any individual who is provided access ...

In addition to any other rights or remedies otherwise provided to consumers by law, any consumer who is damaged by any violation of this chapter may bring an action ...

Any tanning facility which finds that it is not possible to comply with Code Section 31-38-4 may apply to the administrator appointed pursuant to subsection (a) of Code Section ...

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as imposing any duty, requirement, or enforcement authority upon the administrator appointed pursuant to Code Section 10-1-395 except as described in ...

(a) Any person is exempt from the provisions of this chapter to the extent that such person: (1) Uses equipment which emits ultraviolet radiation incidental to ...

Each tanning facility in this state shall be constructed, operated, and maintained in accordance with the requirements of Code Sections 31-38-4 through 31-38-8. ...

(a) The facility owner or operator shall conspicuously post the warning sign described in subsection (b) of this Code section within three feet of each tanning station and in ...

(a) The tanning facility owner or operator shall use only tanning equipment manufactured in accordance with the specifications set forth in 21 CFR 1040.20. The exact nature of compliance ...

Tanning booths designed for stand-up use shall also comply with the following additional requirements: (1) Booths shall have physical barriers or other means, such as handrails ...

(a) The tanning facility owner or operator shall provide protective goggles to each consumer for use during any use of tanning equipment. (b) The protective goggles ...

(a) The tanning facility owner or operator shall compile a written report of actual or alleged injury from use of tanning equipment within five working days after occurrence or ...

Any person who leases tanning equipment or who owns a tanning facility as defined by this chapter who operates or permits to be operated that equipment or facility in ...

The General Assembly finds that although cardiopulmonary resuscitation has proved invaluable in the reversal of sudden, unexpected death, it is appropriate for an attending physician, in certain circumstances, to ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Adult' means any person who is 18 years of age or older, is the parent of a child, ...

(a) Every patient shall be presumed to consent to the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest, unless there is consent or authorization for ...

(a) It shall be lawful for the attending physician to issue an order not to resuscitate pursuant to the requirements of this chapter. Any written order issued by the ...

(a) An attending physician for whose patient an order not to resuscitate has been issued pursuant to subsection (c), (d), or (e) of Code Section 31-39-4 shall examine that ...

(a) In addition to those orders not to resuscitate authorized elsewhere in this chapter, any physician, health care professional, or emergency medical technician shall be authorized to effectuate an ...

(a) A patient may, at any time, revoke his or her consent to an order not to resuscitate by making either a written or an oral declaration or by ...

(a) No physician, health care professional, health care facility, emergency medical technician, or person employed by, acting as the agent of, or under contract with any of the foregoing ...

(a) No policy of life insurance shall be legally impaired, modified, or invalidated in any manner by the issuance of an order not to resuscitate notwithstanding any term of ...

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall impair or supersede any legal right or legal responsibility which any person may have to effect the withholding or withdrawal of cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

There is created the Council on Maternal and Infant Health, hereafter in this chapter referred to as 'council.' The council shall be composed of 17 persons appointed by the ...

The council shall serve in an advisory capacity to the Board of Human Resources, the Department of Human Resources, and any other state agency in all matters relating to ...

The council shall be provided with staff members, office facilities, and other necessary items by the department. The department shall reimburse councilmembers for their expenses. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Tattoo' means to mark or color the skin by pricking in, piercing, or implanting indelible pigments or dyes ...

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to repeal the provisions of Code Section 16-12-5. ...

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a tattoo studio without having first obtained a valid permit for such studio. Such permits shall be issued by the ...

The county boards of health may suspend or revoke permits where the health and safety of the public requires such action. When, in the judgment of such board or ...

Any person substantially affected by any final order of the county board of health denying, suspending, revoking, or refusing to renew any permit provided under this chapter may secure ...

(a) The Department of Human Resources and county boards of health shall have the power to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to ensure the protection of the public ...

The Department of Human Resources and the county boards of health and their duly authorized agents are authorized and empowered to enforce compliance with this chapter and the rules ...

Any person, firm, or corporation operating a tattoo studio without a valid permit or performing tattooing outside of a licensed tattoo studio shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ...

The Department of Human Resources is authorized and directed to develop and institute a program of public education for the purpose of alerting the public to the possible side ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the governing authority of any county or municipality may enact more stringent laws governing tattooing. ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1994.' ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Childhood Lead Exposure Control Act.' ...

(a) The General Assembly finds that childhood lead poisoning prevention activities are currently carried out within the Environmental Health and Injury Prevention, Epidemiology and Prevention, and Laboratory Branches of ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Confirmed lead poisoning' means a blood lead concentration of 20 micrograms per deciliter or greater as determined by ...

Upon determination that a lead poisoning hazard exists, the division shall give written notice of the lead poisoning hazard to the owner or managing agent of the dwelling, dwelling ...

(a) Upon determination that a child less than six years of age has a confirmed lead poisoning of 20 micrograms per deciliter or greater and that child resides in, ...

Any owner of a residential housing unit constructed prior to 1978 who is sued by a current or former occupant seeking damages for injuries allegedly arising from exposure to ...

An owner of a unit who has complied with the maintenance standard may apply annually to the division for, and upon presentation of acceptable proof of compliance shall be ...

In any residential housing unit occupied by a child less than six years old who has an elevated blood lead level of ten micrograms per deciliter or greater, the ...

This article shall not apply to any owner or managing agent of a single-family dwelling or multifamily residence, building, or structure designed to contain not more than 12 single-family ...

The Division of Public Health shall be authorized to promulgate all necessary regulations for the implementation and enforcement of this article. ...

(a) The General Assembly finds that childhood lead poisoning is a devastating environmental health hazard to the children of this state. Exposure to even low levels of lead increases ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Abatement' means any set of measures designed to eliminate lead-based paint hazards, in accordance with standards developed by ...

(a) There is established the Georgia Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program. The Department of Natural Resources is designated as the state agency responsible for implementation, administration, and enforcement of ...

The Board of Natural Resources shall be authorized to promulgate all necessary regulations for the implementation and enforcement of this chapter. In addition to any action which may be ...

(a) The department shall make available to all persons licensed or certified under this chapter current federal regulations affecting such licensees or certified persons. (b) The ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Education Act.' ...

The purposes of this chapter are, to the extent funds are available: (1) To create a multigenerational, state-wide program to promote awareness and knowledge about osteoporosis, ...

The department shall establish strategies to promote and maintain an osteoporosis prevention and treatment education program in order to raise public awareness, educate consumers, and train health professionals, teachers, ...

As used in this chapter, the term 'commission' means the Commission on Men´s Health created in Code Section 31-43-3. ...

(a) The commission may meet at the times and places that the commission designates. (b) The commission shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with ...

The commission shall prepare annually a complete and detailed written report accounting for all funds received and disbursed by the commission during the preceding fiscal year. ...

The commission shall: (1) Adopt rules as necessary for its own procedures; (2) Develop strategies, public policy recommendations, and programs, including community outreach ...

The commission may solicit and accept donations, gifts, grants, property, or matching funds from a public or private source for the use of the commission in performing its functions ...

The General Assembly makes the following findings: (1) There is a silent health crisis affecting the health and well-being of Georgia´s men; (2) ...

There is created the Commission on Men´s Health. The commission shall be assigned to the Department of Community Health for administrative purposes only, as provided in Code Section 50-4-3, ...

The commission shall consist of 11 members: seven members appointed by the Governor; two members of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Assignments, one of whom shall ...

Appointments to the commission shall be made without regard to the race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin of the appointees. The members of the commission appointed ...

(a) A person may not serve as a member of the commission if the person is required to register as a lobbyist because of the person´s activities for compensation ...

(a) The initial members of the commission who are members of the General Assembly shall serve for initial terms of office which expire December 31, 2000. Thereafter, those members ...

(a) The commission annually shall elect one of its members as presiding officer. (b) The presiding officer of the commission may appoint subcommittees for any purpose consistent ...

A member of the commission is not entitled to compensation or expenses, except that any member of the commission who is a member of the General Assembly shall receive ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Dialysis' means a process by which dissolved substances are removed from a patient´s body by diffusion, osmosis, and ...

(a) The department shall conduct periodic inspections of each end stage renal disease facility to verify compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter. ...

(a) The department is authorized to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke a license issued under this chapter for a violation of this chapter or a rule adopted under this ...

A civil or administrative penalty collected under this chapter shall be deposited in the state treasury to the general fund. ...

(a) A person holding a controlling interest in an end stage renal disease facility may, at any time, request the department to assume the management of the facility through ...

The department may request that the Attorney General bring an action to enjoin either the continued operation of the facility or the closing of the facility in the superior ...

(a) A temporary manager appointed under Code Section 31-44-13 or 31-44-14 is entitled to a reasonable fee as determined by the court. The fee shall be paid by the ...

The board shall set fees imposed by this chapter in amounts reasonable and necessary to defray the costs of administering this chapter with due consideration to the amount of ...

(a) The board shall adopt rules to implement this chapter, including but not limited to requirements for the issuance, renewal, denial, suspension, and revocation of a license to operate ...

Except as provided by Code Section 31-44-5, no person, business entity, corporation, or association may operate an end stage renal disease facility without a license issued under this chapter. ...

The following facilities are not required to be licensed under this chapter: (1) A hospital permitted under Chapter 7 of this title that provides dialysis to individuals ...

(a) An applicant for a license under this chapter must submit an application to the department on a form prescribed by the department. (b) Each application ...

The rules adopted under Code Section 31-44-3 must contain minimum standards to protect the health and safety of a patient of an end stage renal disease facility. ...

An end stage renal disease facility may not employ or have working in that facility as a dialysis or reuse technician anyone other than an individual trained and competent ...

The rules adopted by the board under Code Section 31-44-3 shall establish: (1) Minimum standards for the curricula and instructors used to train individuals to act as ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as 'Michelle´s Law.' ...

(a) The Department of Human Resources shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations concerning the construction and operation of public swimming pools. The Department of Human Resources shall classify ...

Each county board of health and its duly authorized agents are authorized and empowered to enforce compliance with the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations relating ...

Notwithstanding any provision of Code Section 31-45-13 regarding the applicability of this chapter to the contrary, a resident or owner of an apartment complex that is not subject to ...

The provisions of this chapter shall apply only in those counties where local rules and regulations governing public swimming pools are not in effect on December 31, 2000. Nothing ...

The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health and safety through the proper design, operation, and maintenance of public swimming pools. ...

As used in this chapter, the term 'public swimming pool,' 'swimming pool,' or 'pool' means any structure, chamber, or tank containing an artificial body of water used by the ...

(a) On or after December 31, 2000, a permit shall be obtained from the county board of health in the county in which a public swimming pool is located ...

A separate application for an operation permit must be submitted for each public swimming pool. The owner or operator shall apply annually to the county board of health for ...

Construction of public swimming pools and additions and alterations to such pools may start only upon issuance and receipt of a permit pursuant to Code Section 31-45-4 and shall ...

A permittee shall notify the county board of health at the time of completion of the construction of a public swimming pool to permit inspection before the pool is ...

Each public swimming pool shall be inspected by the county board of health to determine compliance with this chapter and with the rules and regulations adopted by the Department ...

A permit for a public swimming pool may be suspended or revoked by the county board of health for failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter and ...

Given the growing concern and complexities of health issues in this state, it is the intent of the General Assembly to create a Department of Community Health dedicated to ...

Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 31-1-1, as used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Board' means the Board of Community Health established under Code Section 31-5A-3. ...

(a) There is created the Board of Community Health which shall establish the general policy to be followed by the Department of Community Health. The powers, functions, and duties ...

(a) The Department of Community Health is created and established to perform the functions and assume the duties and powers exercised on June 30, 1999, by the State Personnel ...

(a) To assist in the transition of functions, until July 1, 2000, the State Merit System of Personnel Administration shall perform payroll, accounting, and purchasing services and other general ...

There is created the position of commissioner of community health. The commissioner shall be the chief administrative officer of the department and shall be subject to appointment and removal ...

The policy of this state and the purposes of this chapter are to ensure that adequate health care services and facilities are developed in an orderly and economical manner ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Ambulatory surgical or obstetrical facility' means a public or private facility, not a part of a hospital, which ...

(a) There is created a Health Strategies Council to be appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Any appointment made when the Senate is not in ...

(a) Rules of the department shall be adopted, promulgated, and implemented as provided in this Code section and in Chapter 13 of Title 50, the 'Georgia Administrative Procedure Act,' ...

(a) The Department of Community Health, established under Chapter 5A of this title, is authorized to administer the certificate of need program established under this chapter and, within the ...

The department shall be directed by the commissioner of community health. ...

(a) Any person who acquires a health care facility by stock or asset purchase, merger, consolidation, or other lawful means shall notify the department of such acquisition, the date ...

(a) As used in this Code section only, the term: (1) 'Certificate of need application' means an application for a certificate of need filed with the ...

(a) From and after July 1, 1999, only such new institutional health services or health care facilities as are found by the department to be needed shall be offered ...

(a) A certificate of need shall be valid only for the defined scope, location, cost, service area, and person named in an application, as it may be amended, and ...

(a) The written findings of fact and decision, with respect to the department´s grant or denial of a certificate of need, shall be based on the applicable considerations specified ...

(a) Each application for a certificate of need shall be reviewed by the department and within ten working days after the date of its receipt a determination shall be ...

(a) There is created the Health Planning Review Board, which shall be an agency separate and apart from the department. That review board which existed on June 30, 1994, ...

(a) A health care facility which has a certificate of need or is otherwise authorized to operate pursuant to this chapter shall have such certificate of need or authority ...

(a) Any proposed or existing health care facility which obtains a certificate of need on or after April 6, 1992, based in part upon assurances that it will participate ...

(a) The department may revoke a certificate of need after notice to the holder of the certificate and a fair hearing pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 50, the ...

The department shall prepare and submit an annual report to the Health and Human Services Committee of the Senate and the Health and Human Services Committee of the House ...

(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, this chapter shall not apply to: (1) Infirmaries operated by educational institutions for the sole and exclusive benefit ...

The State Health Planning and Development Agency, the State-wide Health Coordinating Council, and the State Health Planning Review Board existing immediately prior to July 1, 1983, are abolished, and ...

All matters transferred to the Health Strategies Council and the Health Planning Review Board by the previously existing provisions of this Code section and that are in effect on ...

From and after July 1, 1983, the review and appeal considerations and procedures set forth in Code Sections 31-6-42 through 31-6-44, respectively, shall apply to and govern the review ...

(a) There shall be required from each hospital in this state an annual report of certain health care information to be submitted to the department. The report shall be ...

The General Assembly finds and declares that it is important to periodically assess various existing state programs to determine whether such programs continue to be viable and effective or ...

There is created a State Commission on the Efficacy of the Certificate of Need Program for the purpose of studying and collecting information and data relating to the effectiveness ...

(b) The Governor shall designate the chairperson of the Board of Community Health or the chairperson of the Health Strategies Council to serve as the chairperson of the commission. ...

(a) The commission shall hold meetings at the call of the chairperson. (b) A quorum for transacting business shall be a majority of the members of ...

(a) The commission shall have the following duties: (1) To study and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of Georgiás certificate of need program and any other ...

The commission shall stand abolished and this article shall be repealed on June 30, 2007. ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Institution' means: (A) Reserved; (B) Any building, facility, or place in which ...

The department shall (1) certify and approve hospitals applying therefor which may be found to be eligible to render hospital service under any group nonprofit hospital insurance plan, which ...

(a) Any hospital shall, upon request, provide a written summary of certain hospital and related services charges, including but not limited to: (1) The average total ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authorities Act.' ...

(a) It is found, determined, and declared that: (1) There exists in this state a seriously inadequate supply of and a critical need for facilities which ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Authority' means each public corporation created pursuant to this article. (2) 'Cost of project' includes: ...

(a) There is created in and for each county and municipal corporation in this state a public body corporate and politic to be known as the 'Residential Care Facilities ...

(a) Each authority shall have all of the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article, including, but without limiting the ...

No project acquired under this article shall be operated by an authority, any municipal corporation, county, or other governmental subdivision; but such projects shall be leased or sold to ...

(a) The obligations of any authority evidenced by bonds, bond anticipation notes, trust indentures, deeds to secure obligations, security agreements, or mortgages executed in connection therewith may contain such ...

No bonds or other obligations of and no indebtedness incurred by any authority shall constitute an indebtedness or obligation of the state or any county, municipal corporation, or political ...

(a) Each authority created under this article is created for nonprofit and public purposes, and it is found, determined, and declared that: (1) The creation of ...

(a) All moneys received pursuant to the authority of this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds or other obligations, as grants or other contributions, or ...

(a) A facility shall be deemed to be an 'unlicensed personal care home' if it is unlicensed and not exempt from licensure and: (1) The facility ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Personal care home' means any dwelling, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ...

This article shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof, and insofar as this article may be inconsistent with any other law, including the charter of any municipal ...

(a) Whenever any person dies in a hospital licensed pursuant to Chapter 7 of this title, in any federal hospital operating within this state, or any nursing home operated ...

It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide protection for those individuals who are members of peer review groups which evaluate the quality and efficiency of professional ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Peer review' means the procedure by which professional health care providers evaluate the quality and efficiency of services ...

(a) No professional health care provider nor any individual who serves as a member or employee of a professional health care provider or review organization nor any individual who ...

(a) Except in proceedings alleging violation of this article, the proceedings and records of a review organization shall be held in confidence and shall not be subject to discovery ...

(a) When any person is admitted to a medical facility for surgical or medical treatment which has been scheduled in advance, neither the medical facility nor any licensed medical ...

As used in this article, the term 'medical review committee' means a committee of a state or local professional society or of a medical staff or a licensed hospital, ...

There shall be no monetary liability on the part of and no cause of action for damages shall arise against any member of a duly appointed medical review committee ...

Code Section 31-7-141 shall not be construed to confer immunity from liability on any professional society or hospital or upon any health professional while performing services other than as ...

The proceedings and records of medical review committees shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action against a provider of professional health services ...

(a) A hospital or ambulatory surgical center shall provide for the review of professional practices in the hospital or ambulatory surgical center for the purpose of reducing morbidity and ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Branch office' means a location or site, identified in the application or endorsement thereto, from which a home ...

No person, private or public organization, political subdivision, or other governmental agency may operate a home health agency as defined in Code Section 31-7-150 without first obtaining a license ...

Any person, organization, or agency desiring to operate a home health agency shall file with the department an application on a form prescribed, prepared, and furnished by the department. ...

The department shall promulgate regulations which define standards for the care, treatment, health, safety, welfare, and comfort of patients served by home health agencies and for the maintenance and ...

Each home health agency for which a license has been issued shall be periodically inspected by an authorized representative of the department. Such inspections shall be for the purpose ...

(a) No home health agency initiating service or extending the range of its service area shall be licensed unless the Department of Community Health determines, in accordance with Article ...

The department is authorized to establish by standards and policies a fee system which will be applied to all services under this article in order to defray the actual ...

This article shall not apply to services which are provided under the following conditions: (1) Personal or paraprofessional health services provided either with or without compensation ...

Any person who operates a home health agency without first obtaining a license pursuant to this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall ...

When a patient dies in any facility classified as a nursing home by the department and operating under a permit issued by the department, a physician´s assistant or a ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Health service provider psychologist' means a licensed psychologist who meets the criteria of training and experience as provided ...

(a) A medical facility or institution may provide for the appointment of health service provider psychologists on such terms and conditions as the medical facility or institution shall establish. ...

A health service provider psychologist shall meet the following criteria of training and experience: (1) The psychologist must be currently licensed by the State Board of ...

Nothing in this article shall prohibit a psychologist currently a member of a hospital staff or an employee of a hospital from continuing to work in that capacity. ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the exercise of privileges in any medical facility or institution may be limited, restricted, or revoked for reasons including, but not limited ...

When any health service provider psychologist is denied staff privileges or is removed from the medical or professional staff, such action shall be reported by the facility to the ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Hospice Law.' ...

(a) The General Assembly finds that there is an interest in and need for hospice care, an alternative form of health care, for terminally ill patients and their families. ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Bereavement services' means the supportive services provided to the family unit to assist it in coping with the ...

No person, private or public organization, political subdivision, or other governmental agency may operate a hospice as defined in Code Section 31-7-172 without first obtaining license from the department. ...

Any person, organization, or agency desiring to operate a hospice shall file with the department an application on a form prescribed and furnished by the department. The application shall ...

(a) The administration of this article is vested in the Department of Human Resources which shall: (1) Prepare and furnish all forms necessary under the provisions ...

When a patient who is terminally ill or whose death is anticipated and who is receiving hospice care from a licensed hospice dies, a registered professional nurse licensed in ...

(a) The hospice care program shall coordinate its services with those of the patient´s primary or attending physicians, and may contract out for elements of services rendered to the ...

Since hospice care is primarily provided at home, licensure shall not be determined solely on the number of inpatient beds needed for service. Inpatient beds under contract to a ...

The department shall periodically inspect each hospice for which a license has been issued to ensure that the licensee is providing quality care to its patients; provided, however, that ...

Where a hospice has obtained a license from the department, there shall be no requirement that the hospice obtain a certificate of need in order to provide any hospice ...

Reserved. ...

(a) The department shall adopt and promulgate such reasonable rules and regulations which in its judgment are necessary to protect the health and lives of patients and shall prescribe ...

(a)(1) The commissioner may order the emergency relocation of patients or residents from an institution subject to licensure under this chapter, a community living arrangement subject to licensure under ...

The department shall classify institutions and adopt and promulgate rules and regulations applicable thereto according to the type of services rendered. ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Georgia Building Authority (Hospital) Act.' ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Authority' means the Georgia Building Authority (Hospital) the same being formerly known as State Hospital Authority. All references ...

There is created a body corporate and politic to be known as the Georgia Building Authority (Hospital) which shall be deemed to be an instrumentality of the state and ...

The authority shall have powers: (1) To have a seal and alter the same at will; (2) To acquire, hold, and dispose of ...

The authority or any successor thereto shall have power and is authorized at one time, or from time to time, to provide by resolution for the issuance of negotiable ...

Whenever this authority shall determine to issue its bonds, it shall call upon the Georgia Building Authority to render advice and to perform, as its agent, ministerial services in ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Conviction' means a finding or verdict of guilty or a plea of guilty regardless of whether an appeal ...

On and after July 1, 1985, an applicant for a new license shall have a separate license for each new facility in this state owned or operated by that ...

Accompanying any application for a new license for a facility, the applicant shall furnish to the department a records check application and a preliminary records check application for the ...

After being furnished the required records check applications under Code Section 31-7-252, the department shall notify in writing the license applicant as to each person for whom an application ...

After issuing a temporary license based upon a satisfactory preliminary records check determination of the director under Code Section 31-7-253, the department shall transmit to GCIC both sets of ...

After receiving a GCIC notification regarding a director´s fingerprint records check under Code Section 31-7-254, the department shall make a determination based thereon and notify in writing the license ...

Reserved. ...

Reserved. ...

(a) If the director of a facility which has been issued a regular license ceases to be the director of that facility, the licensee shall thereupon designate a new ...

(a) Before a person may become a director of any facility that has received either a temporary or regular license, that facility shall require that person to furnish to ...

In the discretion of the authority, any issue of revenue bonds pursuant to this article may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the authority and a ...

(a) GCIC and law enforcement agencies which have access to GCIC information shall cooperate with the department in performing preliminary and fingerprint records checks required under this chapter and ...

(a) Neither GCIC, the department, any county board of health, any law enforcement agency, nor the employees of any such entities shall be responsible for the accuracy of information ...

The requirements of this article are supplemental to any requirements for a license imposed by Article 1 of this chapter. ...

A determination by the department regarding preliminary or fingerprint records checks under this article or any action by the department revoking, suspending, or refusing to grant or renew a ...

The department is authorized to provide by regulation for the administration of this article. ...

The revenue bonds issued pursuant to this article are made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all municipalities and all municipal subdivisions; all ...

Bonds of the authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure of Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36. ...

(a) As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Health care provider' means any hospital or ambulatory surgical or obstetrical facility having a license or permit ...

(a) The department shall be required to establish and operate a state-wide health care data system to collect, compile, analyze, and disseminate data collected pursuant to this article from ...

The department shall be authorized to request, collect, or receive the collection and submission of data listed in subsection (c) of Code Section 31-7-280 from: (1) Health ...

(a) The department shall compile, direct the compilation of, and disseminate comparative information provided in the annual reports under Code Section 31-7-280 on a health care provider specific basis. ...

(a) Subject to the procedures specified in subsection (b) of Code Section 31-7-283, the department shall be authorized to disclose nonpatient-specific data required under this article. Dissemination of such ...

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, it shall not be unlawful for any entity which may be requested or required to provide data to the department ...

While any of the bonds issued by the authority remain outstanding, the powers, duties, or existence of the authority or of its officers, employees, or agents or those of ...

As a condition of obtaining or retaining the permit required by Code Section 31-7-3 to operate such institution, any hospital which operates an emergency room shall post conspicuously therein ...

(a) A nursing home or intermediate care home licensed under this article shall give notice in the event that such facility has been cited by the department for any ...

(a) Any person or persons responsible for the operation of any institution, or who may hereafter propose to establish and operate an institution, shall submit an application to the ...

(a) Any holder of revenue bonds or interest coupons issued under this article, any receiver for such holders, or any indenture trustee, if there is one, except to the ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Companion or sitter tasks' means the following tasks which are provided to elderly, handicapped, or convalescing individuals: transport ...

Except as otherwise provided in this article, on and after July 1, 1996, no person, business entity, corporation, or association, whether operated for profit or not for profit, may ...

The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to implement this article. The department is authorized to issue, deny, suspend, or revoke licenses or take other disciplinary actions ...

Each private home care provider for which a license has been issued shall be inspected by the department periodically; provided, however, the department may exempt a provider from inspections ...

The department is authorized to charge an application fee, a license fee, a license renewal fee, or a similar fee and the amount of such fees shall be established ...

This article shall not apply to private home care services which are provided under the following conditions: (1) When those services are provided directly by an ...

A person, business entity, corporation, or association which has applied for a license pursuant to this article prior to July 1, 1996, but which has not been granted such ...

(a) A certificate of need issued pursuant to Chapter 6 of this title is not required for any person, business entity, corporation, or association, whether operated for profit or ...

Any such action and any action to protect or enforce any rights under this article shall be brought in the Superior Court of Fulton County, which shall have exclusive ...

Revenue bonds issued under this article shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the state or a pledge of the faith and credit of the state, but ...

The authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issue of revenue refunding bonds of the authority for the purpose of refunding any revenue bonds issued under this ...

It is found, determined, and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its corporate purpose are in all respects for the benefit of the ...

(a)(1) The authority is authorized to fix and to revise from time to time fees, rentals, and other charges for the use of each project and for the services ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Conviction' means a finding or verdict of guilty or a plea of guilty regardless of whether an appeal ...

(a) Prior to hiring an employment applicant, each nursing home shall request a criminal record check from GCIC to determine whether the applicant has a criminal record. A nursing ...

(a) Neither GCIC nor any law enforcement agency providing GCIC information pursuant to this article shall be responsible for the accuracy of information or have any liability for defamation, ...

A nursing home that hires an applicant for employment with a criminal record shall be liable for a civil monetary penalty in the amount of the lesser of $2,500.00 ...

The authority, in addition to the moneys which may be received from the sale of revenue bonds and from the collection of revenues and earnings derived under this article, ...

All moneys received pursuant to this article, whether as proceeds from the sale of revenue bonds, as grants or other contributions, or as revenues and earnings, shall be deemed ...

The accounts of the authority shall be kept by the Department of Audits and Accounts. Such legal services as may be required shall be rendered by the Attorney General ...

This article shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other laws and shall not be regarded as in derogation of any powers now existing. ...

The department may refuse to grant a permit as provided for in Code Section 31-7-3 for the operation of any institution that does not fulfill the minimum requirements which ...

This article, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its inhabitants, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof. ...

As used in this article the term: (1) 'Acquiring entity' means an individual, business corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, joint ...

No acquiring entity shall engage in an acquisition without first notifying the Attorney General pursuant to this article. No nonprofit corporation which owns, controls, or operates, directly or indirectly, ...

(a) Notice to the Attorney General required by this article shall include the name of the seller or lessor; the name of the acquiring entity and other parties to ...

(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, notice to the Attorney General required by this article shall also include a separate certification from each member ...

Within ten working days after receipt of notice under this article, the Attorney General shall publish notice of the proposed transaction in a newspaper of general circulation in the ...

(a) Within 60 days after receipt of the notice under this article, the Attorney General shall conduct a public hearing regarding the proposed transaction in the county in which ...

The purpose of the public hearing shall be to ensure that the public´s interest is protected when the assets of a nonprofit hospital are acquired by an acquiring entity ...

The Attorney General shall issue a report of findings addressing the issues outlined in Code Section 31-7-406 within 30 days of the public hearing; provided, however, the time for ...

The Attorney General shall have the authority to ensure compliance with any and all notices, certifications, obligations, and commitments which are required to be made in connection with a ...

No permit to operate a hospital may be issued or renewed under this chapter or any other applicable statute or regulation and a permit which has been issued shall ...

(a) Any transaction completed before October 31, 1997, or any transaction that is subject to a pending definitive agreement as of October 31, 1997, and which is either conditioned ...

No provision of this article shall derogate from the common law or statutory authority of the Attorney General. ...

In connection with the Attorney General´s responsibilities under this article and in connection with the public hearing required by this article, the Attorney General shall have the same power ...

(a) Any disposition or acquisition of assets made in violation of the notice, disclosure, and certification requirements of this article shall be null and void, and each nonprofit entity ...

Code Section 31-7-3 shall not apply to the offices of physicians or others practicing the healing arts unless the facilities and services described in paragraph (1) of Code Section ...

The state is authorized to make grants to any county, municipality, or any combination thereof or to any hospital authority to assist in the construction and modernization of publicly ...

(a) As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Auxiliary medical facilities' means diagnostic and treatment facilities, nursing homes, chronic illness hospitals, and rehabilitation centers. ...

(a) Grants for construction projects or modernization projects made from state appropriations pursuant to this article shall be in an amount equal to one-third of the allowable cost of ...

(a) The state agency shall establish a matching formula for each construction and modernization category by fiscal year. Any change in a matching formula shall apply in the same ...

In order to assist the several counties, municipalities, or any combination thereof or any hospital authorities created under the 'Hospital Authorities Law,' Article 4 of this chapter, such funds ...

The state agency is to be the sole agency for the administration of state funds pursuant to this article. The administration of such funds shall be in direct conjunction ...

The establishment of hospital service areas, the determination of relative need, the priority of projects, and the standards of construction shall be consistent with Titles VI and VII of ...

(a) For each construction project, there shall be submitted to the state agency an application for state funds. (b) Upon approving an application under this Code ...

(a) Any hospital, health care facility, medical or skilled nursing home, or other organization rendering patient care may provide information, interviews, reports, statements, memoranda, or other data relating to ...

Notwithstanding the provisions of Code Section 31-7-7, if a hospital offers or provides a service which is within the scope of practice of a person licensed as a doctor ...

(a) Whenever any licensed doctor of medicine, doctor of podiatric medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, or doctor of dentistry shall make application for permission to treat patients in any ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Hospital Authorities Law.' ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Area of operation' means the area within the city or county activating an authority. Such term shall also ...

(a) A hospital authority activated for a county pursuant to Code Section 31-7-73 may be merged with a hospital authority activated for that county under Code Section 31-7-72 upon ...

(a) There is created in and for each county and municipal corporation of the state a public body corporate and politic to be known as the 'hospital authority' of ...

(a) Any other provision of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, there is created in and for each county of this state having a population of 100,000 or more ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Family' means spouse, child, or sibling. (2) 'Financial interest' means the direct or ...

Each member of a hospital authority shall take in the presence of an officer authorized to administer same the following oath: I, _______________________, citizen of __________ ...

(a) No hospital which is owned by a hospital authority may be sold or leased to a for profit entity, a not for profit entity, or another hospital authority ...

The members of a hospital authority shall be residents of the participating units comprising the authority. The requirement of residence shall not apply to authorities activated under subsection (d) ...

(a) The proceeds from any sale or lease of a hospital owned by a hospital authority or political subdivision of this state, which proceeds shall not include funds required ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no Georgia nonprofit corporation in its operation of a hospital or other medical facility for the benefit of a governmental ...

A hospital authority which owns or operates a hospital which is qualified to provide home health agency services under the exemption provided in paragraph (14.1) of subsection (a) of ...

Every hospital authority shall be deemed to exercise public and essential governmental functions and shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes ...

(a) The General Assembly declares that it is the intent of this article to provide a mechanism for the operation and maintenance of needed health care facilities in the ...

No authority shall operate or construct any project for profit. It shall fix rates and charges consistent with this declaration of policy and such as will produce revenues only ...

(a) Every authority is authorized to provide by resolution for the issuance and sale of negotiable revenue anticipation certificates for the purpose of: (1) Paying all or ...

Neither the members of an authority nor any person executing certificates on behalf of an authority shall be personally liable thereon by reason of the issuance thereof. The certificates ...

(a) The hospital administrator or chief executive officer of each institution subject to this chapter shall submit a written report to the appropriate licensing board when a person who ...

Certificates of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates; mature at such ...

(a) Certificates of an authority shall be confirmed and validated in accordance with the procedure of Article 3 of Chapter 82 of Title 36; and, when validated, the judgment ...

Obligations of an authority evidenced by certificates and trust indentures and mortgages executed in connection therewith may contain such provisions not inconsistent with law as shall be determined by ...

Pending use for the purpose for which received, each hospital authority created by and under this article is authorized and empowered to invest all moneys or any part thereof ...

(a) An authority shall have no power to tax, but upon the adoption of the resolution by the governing body or bodies of participating units or subdivisions as provided ...

(a) For the purpose of using such facilities, any city or county is authorized by action of its governing body to enter into contracts with an authority for such ...

Any property conveyed or leased to an authority by cities or counties shall be operated by the authority to which the same is conveyed, together with other facilities of ...

Should an authority acquire by purchase existing hospital facilities of political subdivisions and pay the reasonable value therefor, nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent the hypothecation ...

Obligations of an authority other than certificates shall be payable from general funds of an authority and shall at no time be a charge against any special fund allocated ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'control' means ownership of 50 percent or more of the assets of the entity in question or the ability to ...

By joint action of the board of trustees of an authority and the governing bodies of participating units, authorities created under and pursuant to the terms of this article ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term 'medical facility' includes, without being limited to, an ambulatory surgical treatment center defined in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (1) of ...

(a) Each hospital authority created by and under this article shall annually prepare a community benefit report disclosing the cost of indigent and charity care provided by such authority ...

The board of trustees of each authority created under this article shall file with the governing body or bodies of political subdivisions or participating units, on forms prescribed by ...

Each hospital authority created by and under this article shall ensure that an annual audit of the financial affairs, books, and records of such authority is conducted at the ...

All final audits provided for in Code Section 31-7-91 shall be reproduced in sufficient number and copies of the audit shall be filed with the clerk of the superior ...

In the event any hospital authority shall fail or refuse to provide for an annual audit and have such audit prepared and filed as set forth in Code Sections ...

(a) This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the 'Rural Hospital Assistance Act.' (b) The General Assembly finds that hospital authorities are ...

The state is authorized to make grants, as funds are available, to hospital authorities for public health purposes, provided that any funds so granted shall be distributed to and ...

(a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) 'Designated teaching hospital' means a teaching hospital operated by other than a hospital authority, which hospital ...

This article, being necessary for the welfare of the citizens of the state, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof; and insofar as this article may be ...

In order to promote and preserve the health of the people of this state, there is established a Hospital Care for the Indigent Program to be administered by the ...

The department shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as it deems necessary to carry out this article. ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Bill of Rights for Residents of Long-term Care Facilities.' ...

The General Assembly finds that persons residing within long-term care facilities are isolated from the community and often lack the means to assert fully their rights as individual citizens. ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Administrator' means a person, duly licensed as a nursing home administrator under Chapter 27 of Title 43, who ...

Residents´ rights shall include, but not be limited to, the rights provided in Code Sections 31-8-104 through 31-8-121. ...

Each resident and his guardian or representative, if the resident does not have a guardian, shall be given by the facility a written and oral explanation of the rights, ...

Any person who became a resident before July 1, 1981, shall receive the notices required under Code Section 31-8-104; paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) of Code ...

(a) At the time of admission, the facility must provide the resident with: (1) A written notice of the facility´s basic daily or monthly rates; ...

Each resident or person requesting admission to a facility shall be free from discrimination by the facility through its refusing admission or continued residency on the basis of the ...

(a) Each resident shall receive care, treatment, and services which are adequate and appropriate. Care, treatment, and services shall be provided as follows: (1) With reasonable care ...

(a) Each resident shall be free from actual or threatened physical restraints, isolation, or restrictions on mobility within or outside the facility grounds, including the use of drugs to ...

This article shall not be construed as replacing federal, state, or local programs for the indigent but may supplement such programs for hospital care of the indigent. ...

(a) Each resident or guardian shall be permitted to select the pharmacy or pharmacist of his choice for those pharmaceutical supplies and services not provided by the facility as ...

Each resident shall be encouraged and assisted by the facility to exercise all rights, benefits, and privileges as a citizen including, but not limited to, the following: ...

(a) Each resident shall be free from a duty to perform services for the facility. (b) Each resident shall be permitted to rise and retire at times ...

(a) Each resident shall be permitted to retain and use his personal property, including funds and clothing, in his immediate living quarters as space permits. (b) Upon ...

Each resident shall enjoy the right of privacy including, but not limited to, the following: (1) The right to privacy in the resident´s room or the ...

(a) Any payments made to or on behalf of a resident, regardless of the payee, shall be used exclusively for the resident´s benefit, unless otherwise required by law. ...

(a) Except in an emergency, where the resident or other residents are subject to an imminent and substantial danger that only immediate transfer or discharge will relieve or reduce, ...

Only the rights enumerated in paragraph (6) of subsection (b) of Code Section 31-8-108 and subsections (b), (c), and (d) of Code Section 31-8-112 may be suspended as a ...

(a) The facility must permit each resident to exercise the rights and pursue the interests described in this chapter without restraint, interference, coercion, discrimination, or reprisal from the facility. ...

No resident nor any resident´s family, guardian, or representative shall be coerced by any means into giving contributions. When contributions are freely made by the resident or resident´s family, ...

(a) Visitors must be granted access to residents, who have the right to refuse or terminate any visit. The facility must permit the resident´s representatives and representatives of any ...

The facility must permit the formation of a residents´ council by interested residents, provide space for meetings, and provide assistance in attending meetings to those residents who require it. ...

(a) Each facility shall establish written policies and procedures in accordance with this article and shall provide for the implementation and continuing compliance with this article. In addition, each ...

Every effort shall be made to use the state ombudsman or community ombudsman, as provided for in Article 3 of this chapter, to resolve complaints related to residents´ rights. ...

(a) Any resident, guardian, or representative who believes his rights under this article have been violated by a facility shall be permitted to file a grievance under this Code ...

(a) Any resident, guardian, or representative who believes his rights under Code Section 31-8-107, paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of Code Section 31-8-108, Code Section 31-8-109, paragraphs (3) and ...

(a) Any person or persons aggrieved because a long-term care facility has violated or failed to provide any right granted under this article shall have a cause of action ...

The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to implement this article. ...

This article shall be known and may be cited as the 'Remedies for Residents of Personal Care Homes Act.' ...

The General Assembly finds that persons residing within personal care homes are often isolated from the community and often lack the means to assert fully their rights as individual ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Administrator' means the manager designated by the governing body of a personal care home as responsible for the ...

Residents´ rights shall include all rights enumerated in the Rules of the Department of Human Resources Chapter 290-5-35, including, but not limited to, procedural protections relating to admission, transfer, ...

(a) Any resident, or the representative or legal surrogate of the resident, if any, who believes his or her rights under this article have been violated by a personal ...

(a) Any resident, the representative or legal surrogate of the resident, if any, or the state or community ombudsman, who believes the resident´s rights have been violated by a ...

(a) Any resident or the representative or legal surrogate of the resident, if any, may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover actual and punitive ...

A resident, the representative or legal surrogate of the resident, if any, or the Attorney General may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary ...

The failure of the governing body to obtain or maintain a valid license to operate a personal care home shall not constitute a defense to any action brought pursuant ...

A resident, the representative or legal surrogate of the resident, if any, the community ombudsman, the governing body of the personal care home, or any other interested party may ...

This article is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(i) of the Constitution. ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Department' means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 5A of this title. (2) ...

There is created the Indigent Care Trust Fund as a separate fund in the state treasury. The director of the Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services shall credit to ...

After June 30, 1993, any hospital authority, county, municipality, or other state or local public or governmental entity is authorized to transfer moneys to the trust fund. Transfer of ...

The General Assembly may provide for the dedication and deposit of revenues raised from specified sources into the trust fund. ...

Contributions and revenues deposited and transferred to the trust fund shall not lapse to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year. ...

After June 30, 1990, any hospital, hospital authority, county, municipality, or other person or entity is authorized to contribute to the trust fund. The contribution of public funds to ...

All moneys contributed and revenues deposited and transferred to the trust fund pursuant to this article and any interest earned on such moneys shall be appropriated to the department ...

(a) The department shall establish by rules the purposes for which contributions and transfers to the trust fund may be made. Such purposes shall be consistent with the purposes ...

(a) The General Assembly is authorized to appropriate as state funds to the department for use in any fiscal year not less than all of the moneys contributed and ...

All contributions to the trust fund and interest earned thereon which have been appropriated but which: (1) Were void because of having been appropriated in violation ...

Moneys transferred to the trust fund and interest earned thereon which have not been appropriated by the end of the fiscal year or which have been appropriated but have ...

The department shall annually report to the General Assembly on its use of trust funds appropriated to the department pursuant to this article. ...

Except where inconsistent with this article, the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49, the 'Georgia Medical Assistance Act of 1977,' shall apply to the department ...

This article is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(i) of the Constitution. ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Department' means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 5A of this title. (2) ...

There is established within the trust fund a segregated account for revenues raised through the imposition of the provider fee. All revenues raised through provider fees shall be credited ...

(a) Each nursing home shall be assessed a provider fee with respect to each patient day for the preceding quarter, excluding medicare program patient days. The provider fee shall ...

(a) The department shall collect the provider fees imposed pursuant to Code Section 31-8-164. All revenues raised pursuant to this article shall be deposited into the segregated account. Such ...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the General Assembly is authorized to appropriate as state funds to the department for use in any fiscal year all revenues ...

The department shall report annually to the General Assembly on its use of revenues deposited into the segregated account and appropriated to the department pursuant to this article. ...

No later than July 1, 2003, the department shall prepare and submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human ...

Except where inconsistent with this article, the provisions of Article 7 of Chapter 4 of Title 49, the 'Georgia Medical Assistance Act of 1977,' shall apply to the department ...

This article is passed pursuant to the authority of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph VI(i) of the Constitution. ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Care management organization' means an entity granted a certificate of authority under Chapter 21 of Title 33 of ...

There is established within the trust fund a segregated account for revenues raised through the imposition of the quality assessment fee. All revenues raised through such fees shall be ...

(a) Each care management organization shall be assessed a quality assessment fee, in an amount to be determined by the department based on anticipated revenue estimates included in the ...

(a) The department shall collect the quality assessment fees imposed pursuant to Code Section 31-8-173. All revenues raised pursuant to this article shall be deposited into the segregated account. ...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the General Assembly is authorized to appropriate as state funds to the department for use in any fiscal year all revenues ...

The department shall report annually to the General Assembly on its use of revenues deposited into the segregated account and appropriated to the department pursuant to this article. ...

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This article shall not apply to the following: (1) An individual licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of Chapter 34 of Title 43, and persons ...

(a) Any entity, facility, program, or any instrumentality of the state or political subdivision of the state other than those excluded by Code Section 31-8-181 which advertises, markets, or ...

The disclosure required by Code Section 31-8-182 shall explain the specialized care, treatment, or therapeutic activities provided to patients, residents, or participants with Alzheimer´s disease or Alzheimer´s related dementia ...

(a) Failure to provide disclosure as required by this article shall be considered a violation of Part 2 of Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 10, the 'Fair ...

The General Assembly finds that a significant proportion of the residents of this state who are uninsured or Medicaid recipients are unable to access needed health care because health ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Contract' means an agreement executed in compliance with this article between a health care provider and a governmental ...

(a) The department is authorized and directed to establish a program pursuant to this article to provide for health care services to low-income recipients. The department shall enter into ...

The governmental contractor or the health care provider if designated in the contract must provide written notice to each patient or the patient́s legal representative, receipt of which must ...

(a) Every governmental contractor is authorized to recruit, train, and accept the services of volunteers, including regular-service volunteers and occasional-service volunteers in support of or in assistance to the ...

Health care providers and volunteers recruited, trained, or accepted under this article shall not be subject to any provisions of the laws of this state relating to state employment, ...

The Department of Administrative Services shall annually compile a report of all claims statistics which shall include the number and total of all claims pending and paid, and defense ...

Annually, the department shall report to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leaders of each house, and chairpersons of the House ...

The department shall be responsible for and shall pay such amounts as determined by the Department of Administrative Services for insurance premiums for liability coverage for the cost of ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Indigent person' means any resident who is ill or injured and who from his own resources or from ...

The department shall adopt rules and regulations to administer this article in a manner consistent with its purpose to provide and facilitate access to appropriate, safe, and cost-effective health ...

This article applies to incidents occurring on or after July 1, 2005. Nothing in this article in any way reduces or limits the rights of the state or any ...

State funds appropriated to the department for the purpose of carrying out this article shall be expended by the department so as to provide for the administration of this ...

The General Assembly finds that there is an inequitable distribution of the public costs incurred in providing health care for indigent persons who receive such care outside their counties ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Area of operation' shall, for the purpose of hospital authorities, have the same meaning as defined in paragraph ...

(a) The commissioner of human resources shall adopt state-wide standards to determine indigency for the purposes of this article. To the extent practicable, such standards shall be based on ...

There is created the Nonresident Indigent Health Care Fund for the purpose of making payments therefrom to hospitals to reimburse such hospitals for the cost of care of nonresident ...

(a) Each hospital shall maintain accurate records of its cost of care for providing health care services for nonresident indigent patients. As soon as practicable after the close of ...

For each fiscal year, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year, payments to hospitals for cost of care of nonresident indigent patients shall be made from the fund. Beginning with ...

(a) For each fiscal year, beginning with the 1980-81 fiscal year, the commissioner shall make a request for appropriation of the amount determined under Code Section 31-8-34 as the ...

On and after July 1, 1987, hospitals shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this article unless the General Assembly appropriates funds in an amount determined ...

In order for a county to qualify for assistance under the program, the governing authority of said county shall have certified that: (1) The county elects ...

The General Assembly finds that Georgia´s high rates of infant mortality and morbidity are costly to the state in terms of human suffering and of expenditures for long-term institutionalization, ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Cost of care' means the cost of services rendered by a hospital for care required to be provided ...

Any hospital which operates an emergency service shall be required to provide the appropriate, necessary emergency services to any pregnant woman who is a resident of this state and ...

(a) A patient who receives services under this article shall, by accepting such services, be deemed to have agreed to: (1) Be liable to any county ...

(a) The commissioner of human resources shall adopt state-wide standards to determine indigency for the purposes of this article, which standards shall be based upon and consistent with 125 ...

No physician, nurse, or other such medical assistant, nor the hospital or any of its agents or employees shall be guilty of malpractice or civilly liable therefor for treatment ...

If a hospital fails or refuses to provide treatment or services pursuant to the provisions of Code Section 31-8-42, a person aggrieved by such failure or refusal shall have ...

(a) If the department receives notice that a violation by a hospital of Code Section 31-8-42 is in progress, the department shall immediately order an investigation to determine whether ...

After the implementation of this article, the governing authority of each participating county shall, on or before April 1 of each year, submit to the department a program budget ...

The General Assembly finds that a significant number of older citizens of this state reside in long-term care facilities in this state and, because of their isolated and vulnerable ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Community ombudsman' means a person certified as a community ombudsman pursuant to Code Section 31-8-52. ...

Pursuant to the Older Americans Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-73, 79 Stat. 219), as amended, and as a condition of receiving funds under that act for various programs for ...

The state ombudsman shall: (1) Establish policies and procedures, subject to approval by the commissioner of human resources, for receiving, investigating, referring, and attempting to resolve ...

Pursuant to policies and procedures established by the state ombudsman, the community ombudsmen shall: (1) Learn about the general conditions affecting residents of long-term care facilities ...

(a) The state ombudsman or community ombudsman, on his or her initiative or in response to complaints made by or on behalf of residents of long-term care facilities, may ...

(a) Following an investigation, the state ombudsman or community ombudsman shall report his opinions or recommendations to the party or parties affected thereby and shall attempt to resolve the ...

Any person who has reasonable cause to believe that a resident of a long-term care facility is being, or has been, abused, neglected, exploited, or abandoned or is in ...

The identity of any complainant, resident on whose behalf a complaint is made, or individual providing information on behalf of the resident or complainant relevant to the investigation of ...

The state ombudsman shall prepare and distribute to each long-term care facility in the state a written notice describing the long-term care ombudsman program and the procedure to follow ...

Upon certification approved by the department, any participating county may receive credit for direct expenditures made during the period covered by the budget by the county to a hospital ...

No person shall discriminate or retaliate in any manner against any resident or relative or guardian of a resident, any employee of a long-term care facility, or any other ...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person providing information, including, but not limited to, patient records, to the state ombudsman or a community ombudsman shall be held, by ...

Any person who, in good faith, makes a complaint or provides information as authorized in this article shall incur no civil or criminal liability therefor. Any state or community ...

The department is authorized to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to implement this article. ...

In order to qualify for assistance under this program, a person must be an indigent resident of this state and must be a person for whom hospital care is ...

The department is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with other state departments and boards, agencies of the United States government, local governmental agencies, and voluntary organizations to ...

This article shall be known as the 'Long-term Care Facility Resident Abuse Reporting Act.' ...

As used in this article, the term: (1) 'Abuse' means any intentional or grossly negligent act or series of acts or intentional or grossly negligent omission ...

(a) Any: (1) Administrator, manager, physician, nurse, nurse´s aide, orderly, or other employee in a hospital or facility; (2) Medical examiner, dentist, osteopath, ...

(a) The department shall immediately initiate an investigation after the receipt of any report. The department shall direct and conduct all investigations; however, it may delegate the conduct of ...

(a) Upon the receipt of the results of an investigation, the department, in cooperation with the investigating agency, shall immediately evaluate such results to determine what actions shall be ...

(a) Any agency or person who in good faith makes a report or provides information or evidence pursuant to this article shall be immune from liability for such actions. ...

The identities of the resident, the alleged perpetrator, and persons making a report or providing information or evidence shall not be disclosed to the public unless required to be ...

No person or facility shall discriminate or retaliate in any manner against any person for making a report or providing information pursuant to this article or against any resident ...

The department shall prepare a written notice describing the reporting requirements set forth in this article. Such notice shall be distributed to all long-term care facilities and hospitals in ...

The department is authorized and empowered to accept and expend any and all gifts and donations that may be available to it for the purposes of this article. ...

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the 'Womańs Right to Know Act.' ...

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) 'Abortion' means the use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance or device with ...

No abortion shall be performed in this state except with the voluntary and informed consent of the female upon whom the abortion is to be performed. Notwithstanding any provision ...

(a) Not later than August 8, 2005, the Department of Human Resources shall cause to be published in English and in each language which is the primary language of ...

(a) When a medical emergency compels the performance of an abortion, the physician shall inform the female prior to the abortion, if medically reasonable and prudent, of the medical ...

(a) Not later than August 8, 2005, the Department of Human Resources shall prepare a reporting form for physicians performing abortions in a health facility licensed as an abortion ...

In any civil proceeding or action relating to this chapter or a breach of duty under this chapter, the court shall rule whether the anonymity of any female upon ...

If any one or more provisions, Code sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is found to ...