Georgia Code, Title 37, Chapter 2, Article 1 - General Provisions

• § 37-2-1 - Declaration of Purpose
  (a) The State of Georgia recognizes its responsibility for its citizens who are mentally ill or developmentally disabled including individuals with epilepsy, cerebral palsy,...
• § 37-2-2 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Community service board" means a public mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases board established pursuant...
• § 37-2-2.1 - Creation of Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases
  Repealed by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 3-1/HB 228, effective July 1, 2009.
• § 37-2-3 - Designation of Boundaries for Mental Health, Development Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases Regions; Community Service Board Areas
  (a) The board shall designate boundaries for mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases regions and may modify the boundaries of such regions from...
• § 37-2-4 - Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; Membership; Meetings; Obligations
  (a) There is created the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council. The council shall consist of the commissioner of behavioral health and developmental disabilities; the commissioner...
• § 37-2-4.1 - Local Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases Offices; Regional Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Disease Advisory Councils
  (a) The department may create local mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases offices. The number of these offices may be modified from time...
• § 37-2-5 - Regional Advisory Councils -- Establishing Policy and Direction for Disability Services; Membership; Bylaws; Meetings; Expenses
  (a) Each regional advisory council shall engage in disability services planning within its region and may perform other functions as may be provided or...
• § 37-2-5.1 - Allocation of Funds
  (a) State, federal, and other funds appropriated to the department and available for the purpose of funding the planning and delivery of disability services...
• § 37-2-5.2 - Local Offices -- Duties, Functions, and Powers
  Under the supervision of the department, each local office shall have the following duties and functions: (1) To receive and administer gifts, moneys, and...
• § 37-2-6 - Community Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases Service Boards -- Community Service Board Creation; Membership; Participation of Counties; Transfer of Powers and Duties; Alternate Method of Establishment; Bylaws; Reprisals Prohibited
  (a) Community service boards in existence on June 30, 2014, are re-created effective July 1, 2014, to provide mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive...
• § 37-2-6.1 - Community Service Boards -- Executive Director, Staff, Budget, Facilities; Powers and Duties; Exemption From State and Local Taxation
  (a) (1) The governing board of each community service board shall employ an executive director to serve as its chief executive officer and shall...
• § 37-2-6.2 - Employees Whose Jobs Include Duties or Functions Which Became Duties or Functions of a Community Service Board on July 1, 1994; Rights, Duties, and Benefits of Employees
  (a) (1) Those employees whose job descriptions, duties, or functions as of June 30, 1994, included the performance of employment duties or functions which...
• § 37-2-6.3 - Public Body; Lawsuits; Debts, Obligations, and Liabilities
  (a) A community service board is a public body as provided in paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of Code Section 37-2-11.1.(b) A community service...
• § 37-2-6.4 - Reconstituting or Converting of Organizational Structure; Formation of New Community Service Board
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a community service board may reconstitute or convert its organizational structure in the following ways: (1)...
• § 37-2-6.5 - Cessation of Operations by Community Service Board; Notification; Continuation of Operations by Successor Board, County Board of Health, or Outside Manager
  (a) By joint action of the membership of a community service board created pursuant to Code Section 37-2-6 and the governing authority of each...
• § 37-2-7 - Formulation and Publication of State Plan for Disability Services
  (a) The department shall formulate and publish in print or electronically biennially a state plan for disability services which shall take into account the...
• § 37-2-8 - Unification of State and Area Service Programs
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 16, effective July 1, 1994.
• § 37-2-9 - Coordination of Disability Services With Related Activities of Other Agencies and Organizations
  To the maximum extent possible, disability services provided by the department and the regional offices, hospitals, community service boards, and other public and private...
• § 37-2-9.1 - Compliance by Regional Planning Boards and Community Service Boards With Laws As to Open Meetings and Inspection of Records; Advisory Boards
  (a) Each regional planning board and community service board shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 14 of Title 50, relating to open and...
• § 37-2-10 - Commissioner's Emergency Powers Upon Failure of Community Service Board to Establish and Administer Programs
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, the commissioner with the concurrence of the Governor is authorized to establish and administer community programs...
• § 37-2-11 - Allocation of Available Funds for Services; Recipients to Meet Minimum Standards; Accounting for Fees Generated by Providers; Discrimination in Providing Services Prohibited
  (a) It is the goal of the State of Georgia that every citizen be provided an adequate level of disability care through a unified...
• § 37-2-11.1 - Venue in Actions Against Community Service Board; Representation by Attorney General; Immunity; Use of Legal Counsel; Authority for Indemnification, Defense, and Insurance
  (a) Venue for the purpose of any action against a community service board shall be the county in which the principal office of the...
• § 37-2-11.2 - Access by the Department, Department of Human Services, Department of Public Health, Department of Community Health, or Regional Office to Records of Any Program Receiving Public Funds; Confidentiality
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, to ensure the quality and integrity of patient and client care, any program receiving any public...
• § 37-2-12 - Construction of Chapter to Avoid Conflict With Federal Laws
  Repealed by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1324, § 1-7, effective July 1, 2002.

Last modified: October 14, 2016