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 perio