Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 1, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 31-1-1 - Definitions
  Except as specifically provided otherwise, as used in this title, the term: (1) "Board" means the Board of Public Health. (2) "Commissioner" means the...
• § 31-1-2 - Use of Flammable Materials in Eyeglass Frames; Delivery of Completed Work by Offices, Companies, or Laboratories; Penalty
  (a) No person shall distribute, sell, exchange, deliver, or have in his possession with intent to distribute, sell, exchange, or deliver in this state...
• § 31-1-3 - Detection of Hearing Impairments in Infants; Evaluations
  (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...
• § 31-1-3.1 - Reporting Disabled Newborn Persons; Referral to Treatment and Rehabilitative Services
  (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly to ensure the registration by the department of disabled newborn persons in order that all...
• § 31-1-3.2 - Hearing Screenings for Newborns
  (a) The General Assembly finds, determines, and declares: (1) That hearing loss occurs in newborn infants more frequently than any other health condition for...
• § 31-1-4 - Penalties for False Representation, Impersonation
  (a) Any person who shall make, utter, execute, or submit to the department or to any county board of health any oral or written...
• § 31-1-5 - Compensation of Employees for Damage to Wearing Apparel Caused by Patients
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term "wearing apparel" includes eyeglasses, hearing aids, clothing, and similar items worn on the person of...
• § 31-1-6 - Reuse of Heart Pacemakers
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Heart pacemaker" means any electrical device which stimulates the heart muscle so that it...
• § 31-1-7 - Marking of Dentures and Other Removable Dental Prostheses for Identification
  (a) Every complete upper and lower denture and removable permanent partial denture fabricated by a dentist licensed in Georgia shall be marked with the...
• § 31-1-8 - Notice of Proposed Special Facility
  (a) For the purposes of this Code section, the term "special facility" means any of the following facilities: (1) A facility utilized for the...
• § 31-1-9 - Breast-Feeding of Baby
  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...
• § 31-1-10 - State Health Officer; Duties
  (a) The position of state health officer is created. The Governor may appoint the commissioner of public health to serve simultaneously as the state...
• § 31-1-11 - No Legal Compulsion to Participate in Health Care System; No Legal Prohibition on Purchase or Sale of Health Insurance in Private Health Care Systems
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Compel" includes penalties or fines. (2) "Direct payment" or "pay directly" means payment for...
• § 31-1-12 - Hospitals to Provide Educational Information to Parents of Newborns Regarding Pertussis Disease and Availability of a Vaccine
  (a) During the postpartum period and prior to discharge, each hospital shall provide parents of newborns educational information on pertussis disease and the availability...
• § 31-1-13 - Hemophilia Advisory Board
  (a) The commissioner of public health in conjunction with the commissioner of community health shall establish an independent advisory board known as the Hemophilia...
• § 31-1-14 - Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (Polst) Forms
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Attending physician" means the physician who has primary responsibility at the time of reference...
• § 31-1-15 - Storage, Maintenance, Control, and Oversight of Auto-Injectable Epinephrine by Certain Authorized Entities
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "Authorized entity" means any entity or organization, other than a school subject to Code...

Last modified: October 14, 2016