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GA Code § 31-18-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 18 - Registry for Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries|§ 31-18-4. Duties of Commission

  The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission, which is administratively assigned to the Department of Public Health, shall establish procedures whereby a person with a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury for whom a report is made pursuant to this chapter shall be informed of appropriate agencies, departments, hospitals, facilities, organizations, or individuals providing rehabilitative, independent living, and other services or goods.   The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission shall maintain records of reports and notifications made under this chapter. The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission shall produce an annual report relating to information and data collected pursuant to this chapter and shall make such report available upon request. Such report shall be submitted annually no later than October 1 to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination.   Statistical information collected under this chapter shall be available to any other federal or state agency or private organization concerned with traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries, but no names or addresses will be provided without the consent of the person with the traumatic brain or spinal cord injury or the consent of the immediate family or guardian of such person if that person is unable to consent.    (Code 1933, § 88-3404, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1245, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1027, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 833, § 2; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31; Ga. L. 1985, p. 871, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 3; Ga. L. 2004, p. 1107, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 175, § 1/SB 208; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 31/SB 46; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-13/HB 186.)    The 2019 amendment,  effective July 1, 2019, added the third sentence in subsection (b).   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-1/HB 186, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This part shall be known and may be cited as 'The Health Act.'"   Law reviews.   - For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 147 (2011).
GA Code § 31-19-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-1. Responsibility for Control

 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 to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the prevention and control of such disease.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 2; Code 1933, § 88-1501, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Expense of confining animals exhibiting signs of rabies included in county board's budget.   - Local county boards of health should prescribe rules for prevention and control of rabies by providing for vaccination, tagging, and certification of dogs, and for confinement of any animal which exhibits any signs of rabies; cost of such confinement would be an expense of county board of health to be included in the board's budget which is submitted to local taxing authorities under provisions of Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-21.   Responsibility of county boards of health regarding strays and unwanted dogs.   - Local county boards of health should adopt rules and regulations relative to catching and impounding of strays and unwanted dogs. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-21.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 16 et seq.
GA Code § 31-19-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-2. Powers of Department in Infected Area

 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 for immunization and such other measures as shall be indicated for the prevention and control of the disease.   (Code 1933, § 88-1502, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 32.
GA Code § 31-19-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-3. Licensing and Regulation of Animals by Local Authorities

 The governing authorities of each county and municipality are authorized and required, in the control of rabies, to require regulation or licensing of animals.   (Code 1933, § 88-1503, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 2.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 4 Am. Jur. 2d, Animals, §§ 17, 19, 21, 37.   C.J.S.   - 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 12 et seq.
GA Code § 31-19-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-4. Duty of Notification

 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 duty of the owner, custodian, or person having possession and knowledge of any animal which has bitten any person or animal or of any animal which exhibits any signs of rabies to notify the appropriate county board of health and to confine such animal in accordance with rules and regulations of the county board of health.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 10; Code 1933, § 88-1504, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)
GA Code § 31-19-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-5. Inoculation of Canines and Felines Against Rabies

 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 intervals and means of inoculation, the fees to be paid in county sponsored clinics, that procedures be in compliance with the recommendations of the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians for identifying inoculated canines and felines, and all other procedures applicable thereto. As used in this chapter, the term "inoculation against rabies" means the administering by a licensed veterinarian of antirabies vaccine approved by the department.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 3; Code 1933, § 88-1505, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 3; Ga. L. 1992, p. 2089, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For note, "Puppies, Puppies, Puppies: Why Georgia Should 'Adopt' a Progressive Puppy Lemon Law and Engage in Much-Needed Statutory Reform," see 55 Ga. L. Rev. 431 (2020).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 31 et seq.
GA Code § 31-19-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-6. Certificates of Inoculation; Tags

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1992, p. 2089, § 2, effective July 1, 1992.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 4; Code 1933, § 88-1506, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 4.
GA Code § 31-19-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-7. County Rabies Control Officer

  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 county rabies control officer to enforce this chapter and other laws which regulate the activities of dogs.   The county governing authority of each county is authorized to levy a fee not to exceed 50› for each dog, such fee to be collected by the veterinarian administering the antirabies vaccine required by this chapter. This fee shall be in addition to that provided for in Code Section 31-19-5. If any county has no resident veterinarian, the out-of-county veterinarian administering the antirabies vaccine and collecting the fee provided for by this Code section shall forward to the treasurer of the county of the dog owner's residence the fee prescribed by that county's governing authority.   The fees collected under this Code section shall be used to help in paying the salary of the county rabies control officer.    (Code 1933, § 88-1506.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 65 et seq.
GA Code § 31-19-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-8. Joint Administration of Chapter by Adjoining Counties

 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.   (Code 1933, § 88-1506.2, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 6.)
GA Code § 31-19-9 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-9. Applicability to Municipalities With Rabies Control Laws

 This chapter shall not apply to municipalities which already have a rabies control law unless and until such law is repealed.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 13; Ga. L. 1969, p. 834, § 7.)
GA Code § 31-19-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 19 - Control of Rabies|§ 31-19-10. Penalty

 Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.   (Ga. L. 1945, p. 448, § 11; Code 1933, § 88-1507, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 3B C.J.S., Animals, §§ 175 et seq., 183 et seq.
GA Code § 31-20-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures|§ 31-20-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the term:    "Accredited hospital" means a hospital licensed by the Department of Community Health and accredited by a nationally recognized health care accreditation body.   "Physician" means a person duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery without restriction in Georgia pursuant to Chapter 34 of Title 43.   "Sterilization procedure" means any procedure which is designed or intended to prevent conception and which is not designed to unsex the patient by removing the ovaries or testicles.    (Ga. L. 1966, p. 453, § 3; Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 4; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 2-30/SB 433; Ga. L. 2012, p. 337, § 7/SB 361.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 262.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 72.
GA Code § 31-20-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures|§ 31-20-2. Performance of Sterilization Procedure Upon Request

 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 legally married, provided that a request in writing is made by such person and provided, further, that prior to or at the time of such request a full and reasonable medical explanation is given by such physician to such person as to the meaning and consequence of such operation.   (Ga. L. 1966, p. 453, § 2; Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 2; Ga. L. 1990, p. 325, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For note on 1990 amendment of this Code section, see 7 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 309 (1990).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Physician need not disclose risks of sterilization procedure.    - Language "full and reasonable medical explanation . . . as to the meaning and consequence of such operation" means that the physician must fully inform the patient of the intended results of sterilization, which is the permanent inability to have children, but does not mean that a physician must disclose the possible risks and complications of the sterilization procedure. Robinson v. Parrish, 251 Ga. 496, 306 S.E.2d 922 (1983).    O.C.G.A. § 31-20-2 does not require a physician to disclose possible risks and complications of a sterilization procedure. Robinson v. Parrish, 720 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1983).    O.C.G.A. § 31-20-2 did not require a physician to inform a patient of the risk of chronic testicular pain, and failure to do so did not vitiate the plaintiff's written request. Ariemma v. Perlow, 223 Ga. App. 360, 477 S.E.2d 590 (1996).   Medical explanation required.    - O.C.G.A. § 31-20-2 requires that a full and reasonable medical explanation be given by the physician to the patient as to the method to be employed in a sterilization operation and is not satisfied when the physician merely informs the patient that the intended result of the operation would be to render the patient permanently incapable of having children; the patient must understand how his or her inability to have children will result. Dohn v. Lovell, 187 Ga. App. 523, 370 S.E.2d 789, cert. denied, 187 Ga. App. 907, 370 S.E.2d 789 (1988).    After a patient requested her tubes be "cut and tied," whether her request was a generic request for sterilization rather than a request for a specific method of sterilization was a question of fact as to whether she was given a "full and reasonable medical explanation." Gowen v. Carpenter, 189 Ga. App. 477, 376 S.E.2d 384 (1988).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 262.   C.J.S.   - 16A C.J.S., Constitutional Law, §§ 756, 757, 758. 16C C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 1199. 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 72.   ALR.   - Legality of voluntary nontherapeutic sterilization, 35 A.L.R.3d 1444.
GA Code § 31-20-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures|§ 31-20-4. Restriction on Performance of Sterilization Procedure

 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 Chapter 34 of Title 43.   (Ga. L. 1966, p. 453, § 4; Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 5.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 262.
GA Code § 31-20-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures|§ 31-20-5. Civil and Criminal Liability; Compliance Where Other Medical Treatment May Result in Sterilization

 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 legally participating in the execution of this chapter shall be liable civilly or criminally as a result of such operation or participation therein, except in the case of negligence in the performance of such operation. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed so as to require compliance therewith where medical or surgical treatment for sound therapeutic purposes, by a physician duly licensed without restriction to practice medicine and surgery in this state, is required of any person in this state and where such treatment, at the same time that it serves such purposes, may involve the nullification or destruction of reproductive functions.   (Ga. L. 1966, p. 453, § 5; Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 6.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 70 C.J.S., Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health Care Providers, § 181.   ALR.   - Physicians and surgeons: res ipsa loquitur, or presumption or inference of negligence, in malpractice cases, 82 A.L.R.2d 1262.   Malpractice in appendicitis treatment and surgery, 94 A.L.R.2d 1006.   Physician's or surgeon's malpractice in connection with diagnosis or treatment of rectal or anal disease, 5 A.L.R.3d 916.   Legality of voluntary nontherapeutic sterilization, 35 A.L.R.3d 1444.
GA Code § 31-20-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures|§ 31-20-6. Exemptions From Requirements of Chapter

  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 committee such as contemplated under paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Code Section 31-20-3.   A physician, or any other person who is a member of or associated with the staff of a hospital, or any employee of a hospital in which a sterilization procedure has been authorized who shall object to such sterilization procedure on moral or religious grounds shall not be required to participate in the medical procedures or the committee procedures leading to such sterilization procedure; the refusal of any such person to participate therein shall not form the basis of any claim for damages resulting from such refusal or for any disciplinary or recriminatory action against such person.    (Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 7.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 262.
GA Code § 31-22-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the term:    "Certified" means certified by or operating under a certificate of waiver from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pursuant to the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988.   "Clinical laboratory" means a facility for the biological, microbiological, serological, chemical, immunohematological, hematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other examination of materials derived from the human body for the diagnosis of, recommendation of treatment of, or for the purposes of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or impairment of, or the assessment of the health of human beings.    (Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 2; Ga. L. 1971, p. 247, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1081, §§ 1, 2, 6, 7; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 31; Ga. L. 1991, p. 349, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1190, § 1/SB 51; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-5/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 4-16/HB 214; Ga. L. 2016, p. 318, § 1/SB 273; Ga. L. 2017, p. 547, § 1/HB 210; Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93.)    The 2017 amendment,  effective July 1, 2017, in the middle of the first sentence of paragraph (2), deleted "shall include" preceding "blood banks", and substituted "unless such human blood and its component parts are intended as source material for the manufacture of biological products and regulated by the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) within the federal Food and Drug Administration; the term 'clinical laboratory' shall include" for "as well as".    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, rewrote this Code section.   Law reviews.   - For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 147 (2011).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Sherrer v. Hale, 248 Ga. 793, 285 S.E.2d 714 (1982).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Right of corporation to engage in business, trade, or activity requiring license from public, 165 A.L.R. 1098.
GA Code § 31-22-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-2. Certification of Clinical Laboratories

 No clinical laboratory shall be operated in this state unless it is certified.   (Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 4; Ga. L. 1975, p. 737, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1081, §§ 3, 4, 8, 9; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388; Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93.)    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, rewrote this Code section.   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Amount and disposition of licensure fees.   - Fees for laboratory licenses must not exceed those amounts calculated to defray cost of inspecting, evaluating, and investigating nonexempt laboratories; all fees collected under licensure law must be paid into state treasury, and licensing program must be financed out of funds made available to department by General Assembly. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-140.   Subsection (e) enunciates qualifications for position of clinical director.   - Legislature desires to have directors licensed as clinical directors; provisions of this section enunciate certain qualifications needed for position of clinical director. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-140.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.    - Failure to procure occupational or business license or permit as affecting validity or enforceability of contract, 30 A.L.R. 834; 42 A.L.R. 1226; 118 A.L.R. 646.   Right to enjoin business competitor from unlicensed or otherwise illegal acts or practices, 90 A.L.R.2d 7.   Recovery back of money paid to unlicensed person required by law to have occupational or business license or permit to make contract, 74 A.L.R.3d 637.   Practices forbidden by state deceptive trade practice and consumer protection acts, 89 A.L.R.3d 449.
GA Code § 31-22-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-3. Clinical Laboratory, Blood Bank, and Tissue Bank Committee

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1132, § 2/SB 407, effective July 1, 2012; Ga. L. 2021.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 8; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1257, §§ 3-5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 2376, §§ 1, 2.   Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93, reenacted the reservation of this Code section without change, effective July 1, 2021.   Law reviews.   - For article, "Reforming Regenerative Medicine Regulation," see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 631 (2018).
GA Code § 31-22-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-4. Examination of Human Specimens

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93, effective July 1, 2021.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 5; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31; Ga. L. 1998, p. 1385, § 1.
GA Code § 31-22-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-5. Methods for Selection of Blood Donors and Collection, Storage, and Processing of Human Blood

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93, effective July 1, 2021.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1972, p. 1247, § 2.
GA Code § 31-22-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-6. Power of Board to Promulgate Rules and Regulations

 In addition to powers conferred elsewhere in this chapter, the board shall promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this chapter.   (Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 4; Ga. L. 1972, p. 1257, § 2; Ga. L. 2012, p. 1132, § 3/SB 407; Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93.)    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, substituted the present provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: "In addition to powers conferred elsewhere in this chapter, the board shall:   "(1) Promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this chapter;   "(2) Establish and enforce standards governing the safety and sanitary requirements pertaining to clinical laboratories to the extent that they are not otherwise subject to requirements imposed by law or municipal ordinance; and   "(3) Promulgate rules and regulations relating to the qualifications and performance of all personnel."   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Board of Health (now Board of Community Health) must implement clinical laboratory licensing law.  1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-140.
GA Code § 31-22-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories|§ 31-22-7. Reports to Department

 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 laboratory making reports shall be held liable for having violated a trust or confidential relationship. The reports submitted shall be deemed confidential and not subject to public inspection.   (Ga. L. 1970, p. 531, § 6; Ga. L. 2021, p. 472, § 1/HB 93.)    The 2021 amendment,  effective July 1, 2021, deleted the subsection (a) designation, and deleted former subsection (b), which read: "Every director of a clinical laboratory shall report to the department such information regarding the operation of the clinical laboratory as the department by its rules and regulations may require in order to aid in the proper administration of this chapter."