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GA Code § 31-3-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 3 - County Boards of Health|§ 31-3-12. Duties of Director

 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 and exercise the powers set forth in this chapter except the power to adopt bylaws and to adopt rules and regulations and may delegate the powers and authority conferred, or any part thereof, to one or more individuals as he may deem appropriate. The director shall devote his entire time to the service of the county board of health and to the multiple county districts, where created, and shall be vigilant in procuring compliance with its rules and regulations and with Georgia health laws and rules and regulations adopted thereunder that have application within the county and district. He shall make reports to the county board of health and the agency in charge of the multiple county district in such manner and form and with such frequency as required by it and shall also report to the department in such manner, detail, and form as the department may specify.   (Code 1933, § 88-212, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, § 25 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 9 et seq.   ALR.    - Personal liability of health officer, 24 A.L.R. 798.
GA Code § 31-3-13 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 3 - County Boards of Health|§ 31-3-13. Declaration of Public Policy; Contracts for Assistance to Boards

 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 effectuate this policy, a county board of health may contract for assistance in the performance of its functions and exercise of its powers, provided that such proposed contract and any amendments thereto shall have first been approved by the department.   (Code 1933, § 88-213, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, §§ 19, 20.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, §§ 7 et seq., 16, 17, 26.
GA Code § 31-3-14 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 3 - County Boards of Health|§ 31-3-14. Financing of Expenses

 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 money needed for the fiscal or calendar year, as the case may be, in accordance with a budget itemizing anticipated income and expenditure; the budget shall include any unobligated moneys carried over from the current period and funds to be made available from sources other than county taxes. The expenditures anticipated, after applying credits, shall be certified by the county board of health, with a copy of the budget, to the taxing authority of the county, which may fix and levy a tax rate sufficient to raise such amount at the same time and in the same manner prescribed for levying taxes for other county purposes, provided the taxing authority of the county deems the budget reasonable. If, however, the taxing authority of the county should deem the budget unreasonable, it shall promptly return the budget to the county board of health with its objections attached thereto for the purpose of resubmission.   (Code 1933, § 88-214, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Expense of confining rabid animals to be included in 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 signs of rabies; the cost of such confinement would be an expense of the county board of health to be included in the board's budget which is submitted to local taxing authorities. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-21.   County board shall maintain funds separate from general county funds.   - Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1, and Ga. L. 1966, p. 380, § 1 indicate that county board of health shall maintain the board's funds separate from those of county, rather than that the board's funds should be paid into general county funds. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U71-120.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, §§ 17, 18.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, §§ 91, 92.
GA Code § 31-3-16 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 3 - County Boards of Health|§ 31-3-16. Enforcement Under Local Ordinances

 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 to provide penalties for a violation of a valid rule and regulation of the county board of health.   (Code 1933, § 88-218, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, § 8 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, §§ 7 et seq., 26.
GA Code § 31-4-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 4 - Council on Maternal and Infant Health|§ 31-4-1. Through 31-4-3

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-15/HB 228, effective July 1, 2009.   Editor's notes.   - This chapter consisted of Code Sections 31-4-1 through 31-4-3 and was based on Ga. L. 1972, p. 635, §§ 1, 2, 3; Ga. L. 1974, p. 269, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1763, § 1; Ga. L. 1979, p. 766, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31.
GA Code § 31-5A-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 5A - Department of Community Health|§ 31-5A-1. Through 31-5a-8

  Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-1/HB 228, effective July 1, 2009, redesignated former Chapter 5A of Title 31 as present Chapter 2 of Title 31.
GA Code § 31-9-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment|§ 31-9-1. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Medical Consent Law."   (Code 1933, § 88-2901, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1.)
GA Code § 31-9-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment|§ 31-9-3. Emergencies

  As used in this Code section, the term "emergency" means a situation wherein (1) according to competent medical judgment, the proposed surgical or medical treatment or procedures are reasonably necessary and (2) a person authorized to consent under Code Section 31-9-2 is not readily available and any delay in treatment could reasonably be expected to jeopardize the life or health of the person affected or could reasonably result in disfigurement or impaired faculties.   In addition to any instances in which a consent is excused or implied at law, a consent to surgical or medical treatment or procedures suggested, recommended, prescribed, or directed by a duly licensed physician will be implied where an emergency exists.    (Code 1933, § 88-2905, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Further provisions regarding liability for rendering of emergency care, §§ 31-11-8,51-1-29.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Winfrey v. Citizens & S. Nat'l Bank, 149 Ga. App. 488, 254 S.E.2d 725 (1979); Davis v. Charter By-The-Sea, Inc., 183 Ga. App. 213, 358 S.E.2d 865 (1987).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 59 Am. Jur. 2d, Parent and Child, § 65. 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 156.   C.J.S.   - 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, §§ 38, 40, 41, 46 et seq. 70 C.J.S., Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health Care Providers, §§ 103 et seq., 112 et seq.   ALR.    - Consent as condition of right to perform surgical operation, 76 A.L.R. 562; 139 A.L.R. 1370.   Liability of physician or surgeon for extending operation or treatment beyond that expressly authorized, 56 A.L.R.2d 695.   Malpractice: questions of consent in connection with treatment of genital or urinary organs, 89 A.L.R.3d 32.   Malpractice in connection with electroshock treatment, 94 A.L.R.3d 317.   Power of court or other public agency to order medical treatment over parental religious objections for child whose life is not immediately endangered, 21 A.L.R.5th 248.
GA Code § 31-9-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment|§ 31-9-4. Applicability of Chapter to Care and Treatment of Mentally Ill

 This chapter shall be applicable to the care and treatment of patients in facilities for the mentally ill as defined in paragraph (7) of Code Section 37-3-1.   (Code 1933, § 88-2903, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 704, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Mental competency of patient to consent to surgical operation or medical treatment, 25 A.L.R.3d 1439.   Right of state prison authorities to administer neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs to prisoner without his or her consent - state cases, 75 A.L.R.4th 1124.
GA Code § 31-9-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment|§ 31-9-5. Applicability of Chapter to Abortion and Sterilization Procedures

 This chapter shall not apply in any manner whatsoever to abortion and sterilization procedures, which procedures shall continue to be governed by existing law independently of the terms and provisions of this chapter.   (Code 1933, § 88-2902, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Abortion generally, § 16-12-140 et seq.   Performance of sterilization procedure, T. 31, C. 20.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Chapter specifically excludes sterilization procedures which are governed by Voluntary Sterilization Act, O.C.G.A. § 31-20-2. Robinson v. Parrish, 251 Ga. 496, 306 S.E.2d 922 (1983).    Cited in  Robinson v. Parrish, 720 F.2d 1548 (11th Cir. 1983).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Right of minor to have abortion performed without parental consent, 42 A.L.R.3d 1406.   Woman's right to have abortion without consent of, or against objections of, child's father, 62 A.L.R.3d 1097.   Validity of state "informed consent" statutes by which providers of abortions are required to provide patient seeking abortion with certain information, 119 A.L.R.5th 315.   Women's reproductive rights concerning abortion, and governmental regulation thereof - Supreme Court cases, 20 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 1.
GA Code § 31-9-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9 - Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment|§ 31-9-7. Right of Persons Who Are at Least 18 Years of Age to Refuse to Consent to Treatment

 Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to abridge any right of a person 18 years of age or over to refuse to consent to medical and surgical treatment as to his own person.   (Code 1933, § 88-2907, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 59 Am. Jur. 2d, Parent and Child, § 65.   C.J.S.   - 67A C.J.S., Parent and Child, §§ 38, 40, 41, 46 et seq.   ALR.    - Consent as condition of right to perform surgical operation, 76 A.L.R. 562; 139 A.L.R. 1370.   Patient's right to refuse treatment allegedly necessary to sustain life, 93 A.L.R.3d 67.   Judicial power to order discontinuance of life-sustaining treatment, 48 A.L.R.4th 67.   Power of court or other public agency to order medical treatment over parental religious objections for child whose life is not immediately endangered, 21 A.L.R.5th 248.
GA Code § 31-9A-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9A - Woman's Right to Know|§ 31-9A-1. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Woman's Right to Know Act."    (Code 1981, §31-9A-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1450, § 6/HB 197.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   ALR.   - Women's reproductive rights concerning abortion, and governmental regulation thereof - Supreme Court cases, 20 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 1.
GA Code § 31-9A-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9A - Woman's Right to Know|§ 31-9A-5. Requirements in Case of Medical Emergency

  When a medical emergency compels the performance of an abortion, the physician shall inform the female prior to the abortion, if medically reasonable and prudent, of the medical indications supporting the physician's judgment that an abortion is medically necessary to avert her death or that a 24 hour delay will create serious risk of substantial or irreversible impairment of a major bodily function.   Any physician who complies with subsection (a) of this Code section shall not be held civilly liable to a patient for failure to obtain informed consent to an abortion.     (Code 1981, §31-9A-5, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1450, § 6/HB 197.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Abortion and Birth Control, §§ 30, 36.   C.J.S.   - 1 C.J.S., Abortion and Birth Control, § 8 et seq.
GA Code § 31-9A-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9A - Woman's Right to Know|§ 31-9A-7. Preservation of Patient Anonymity in Civil Proceedings

 In any civil proceeding or action relating to this chapter or a breach of duty under this chapter, the court shall rule whether the anonymity of any female upon whom an abortion has been performed shall be preserved from public disclosure if she does not give her consent to such disclosure. The court, upon motion or sua sponte, shall make such a ruling and, upon determining that her anonymity should be preserved, shall issue orders to the parties, witnesses, and counsel and shall direct the sealing of the record and exclusion of individuals from courtrooms or hearing rooms to the extent necessary to safeguard her identity from public disclosure. Each such order shall be accompanied by specific written findings explaining why the anonymity of the female should be preserved from public disclosure, why the order is essential to that end, how the order is narrowly tailored to serve that interest, and why no reasonable less restrictive alternative exists. This Code section may not be construed to conceal the identity of the plaintiff or of witnesses from the defendant.    (Code 1981, §31-9A-7, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1450, § 6/HB 197.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 1 Am. Jur. 2d, Abortion and Birth Control, § 41.
GA Code § 31-9A-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9A - Woman's Right to Know|§ 31-9A-8. Severability

 If any one or more provisions, Code sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is found to be unconstitutional, the same is declared to be severable, and the balance of this chapter shall remain effective notwithstanding such unconstitutionality. The General Assembly declares that it would have enacted this chapter and each Code section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more provisions, Code sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words would be declared unconstitutional.    (Code 1981, §31-9A-8, enacted by Ga. L. 2005, p. 1450, § 6/HB 197.)
GA Code § 31-9B-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 9B - Physician's Obligation in Performance of Abortions|§ 31-9B-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the term:    "Abortion" has the meaning provided by Code Section 31-9A-2.   "Medical emergency" has the meaning provided by Code Section 31-9A-2.   "Medically futile" means that, in reasonable medical judgment, the unborn child has a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that is incompatible with sustaining life after birth.   "Physician" has the meaning provided by Code Section 31-9A-2.   "Probable gestational age of the unborn child" means what will, in reasonable medical judgment and with reasonable probability, be the postfertilization age of the unborn child at the time the abortion is planned to be performed or induced, as dated from the time of fertilization of the human ovum.   "Reasonable medical judgment" means a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved.   "Unborn child" has the meaning provided by Code Section 31-9A-2.     (Code 1981, §31-9B-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2012, p. 575, § 3/HB 954.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2012, the subsection (a) designation was removed as there was not a subsection (b).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   Sovereign immunity barred suit.    - Suit by physicians against state officials alleging that O.C.G.A. § 31-9B-1 et seq., regulating abortions, violated the state constitution in several respects, was barred by sovereign immunity under Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. II, Para. IX, because there was no consent to such a suit in any statute or in the state constitution. Lathrop v. Deal, 301 Ga. 408, 801 S.E.2d 867 (2017).
GA Code § 31-10-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 10 - Vital Records|§ 31-10-2. Maintenance and Operation of Vital Records Registration System

 There is hereby established within the department the State Office of Vital Records which shall maintain and operate the state's official vital records registration system. The system shall be in effect in all areas of the state, and the State Office of Vital Records shall provide for proper administration of the system and preservation of its records.    (Code 1933, § 88-1702, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, §31-10-2, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2; Ga. L. 2004, p. 477, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-10-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 10 - Vital Records|§ 31-10-3. Rules and Regulations

 The department is authorized to adopt, amend, and repeal rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.    (Code 1933, § 88-1703, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, §31-10-3, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2.)
GA Code § 31-10-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 10 - Vital Records|§ 31-10-4. Appointment of State Registrar of Vital Records

 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 Personnel Board, classified service.    (Code 1933, § 88-1704, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, §31-10-4, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 745, § 2/SB 97; Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 2-41/HB 642.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-1/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Personnel, equipment, and facilities that were assigned to the State Personnel Administration as of June 30, 2012, shall be transferred to the Department of Administrative Services on the effective date of this Act." This Act became effective July 1, 2012.   Ga. L. 2012, p. 446, § 3-2/HB 642, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Appropriations for functions which are transferred by this Act may be transferred as provided in Code Section 45-12-90."   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Porter v. Calhoun County, 250 Ga. 566, 300 S.E.2d 143 (1983).
GA Code § 31-10-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 10 - Vital Records|§ 31-10-5. Duties and Powers of State Registrar; Delegation of Functions and Duties

  The state registrar shall:   Administer and enforce the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this chapter and issue instructions for the efficient administration of the State Office of Vital Records;   Direct and supervise the State Office of Vital Records and be custodian of its records;   Direct, supervise, and control the activities of all persons when they are engaged in activities pertaining to the operation of the State Office of Vital Records;   Conduct training programs to promote uniformity of policy and procedures throughout the state in matters pertaining to the State Office of Vital Records;   Prescribe, furnish, and distribute such forms as are required by this chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this chapter or prescribe such other means for transmission of data as will accomplish the purpose of complete and accurate reporting and registration;   Prepare and publish in print or electronically reports of vital statistics of this state and such other reports as may be required by the department; and   Provide to local health agencies copies of or data derived from certificates and reports required under this chapter, as the state registrar shall determine are necessary for local health planning and program activities. The state registrar shall establish a schedule with each local health agency for transmittal of the copies or data. The copies or data shall remain the property of the department, and the uses which may be made of them shall be governed by the state registrar.     The state registrar may establish or designate offices in the state to aid in the efficient administration of the State Office of Vital Records.   The state registrar may delegate such functions and duties vested in the state registrar to employees of the State Office of Vital Records and to employees of any office established or designated under subsection (b) of this Code section.     (Code 1933, § 88-1703, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-1705, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 1; Code 1981, §31-10-3; Code 1981, §31-10-5, enacted by Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, § 2; Ga. L. 1991, p. 94, § 31; Ga. L. 2004, p. 477, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 838, § 10/SB 388.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Validity of racial designations on birth certificates and other official documents.   - State of the law is such as not only to permit use of racial designations on birth certificates and other official documents but federal law affirmatively mandates use of racial designations in certain areas. 1971 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 71-135.
GA Code § 31-10-6 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 10 - Vital Records|§ 31-10-6. Local Registrars, Local Custodians, Special Abstracting Agents, and Deputies; Appointment; Duties

  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 the duties required by this chapter and regulations of the department. The state registrar may appoint local deputy registrars as necessary. A local registrar, subject to the approval of the state registrar, may appoint a deputy or deputies. A local custodian, subject to the approval of the state registrar, may appoint a clerk or clerks of records.   Local registrars shall collect and receive vital records, review them for accuracy and completeness, and keep and submit other reports as may be required by the department.   Local custodians shall file, record, and preserve copies of vital records and issue certified copies provided for by law.   Special abstracting agents shall examine evidence, abstract evidence onto prescribed forms, and submit such completed forms to the State Office of Vital Records for the filing of delayed certificates of birth or the amendment of certificates of live birth.     (Ga. L. 1914, p. 157, § 18; Ga. L. 1927, p. 353, § 18; Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, §§ 16, 17; Ga. L. 1933, p. 7, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-1210; Code 1933, § 88-1706, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Code 1981, §31-10-6; Ga. L. 1982, p. 723, §§ 1, 2; Ga. L. 2004, p. 477, §§ 4, 11.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, §§ 69, 70.