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GA Code § 49-2-3 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-3. Functions Transferred to the Board From Other Boards and Commissions

  The policy-making functions of the State Board for Children and Youth, contained in Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, are vested in the Board of Human Services.   The policy-making functions of the Commission on Aging, created in Ga. L. 1962, p. 604, are vested in the Board of Human Services.    (Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, §§ 1215-1217; Ga. L. 1982, p. 833, § 2; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 10; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-4 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-4. Creation of Divisions; Allocation of Functions

 There shall be created in the department such divisions as may be found necessary for its effective operation. The commissioner shall have the power to allocate and reallocate functions among the divisions within the department.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 7; Ga. L. 1960, p. 85, § 8; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-5 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-5. Department Is Institution of State; Power to Receive and Disburse State, County, and Federal Funds

 The department is declared to be an institution of the state for which the powers of taxation over the whole state may be exercised, and the department is empowered and authorized to administer, expend, and disburse funds appropriated to it and allocated to it by the General Assembly, the respective counties of the state, and the United States, through its appropriate agencies and instrumentalities for the purpose of distributing old-age benefits and all other benefits as provided in this title.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 2; Ga. L. 1960, p. 85, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 49; Ga. L. 1983, p. 3, § 65; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Voluntarily donated county funds.   - Department may accept public funds donated voluntarily by counties for the provision of day care and other social services to welfare applicants and other authorized recipients. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 72-12.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Funds, § 70 et seq. 79 Am. Jur. 2d, Welfare Laws, § 53 et seq.   C.J.S.   - 64A C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 2027. 82 C.J.S., Statutes, §§ 487, 488.
GA Code § 49-2-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-7. Functions, Duties, and Authority Transferred to the Department From Other State Agencies

  The functions, duties, and authority of the Board of Public Welfare, established by Ga. L. 1919, p. 222, as amended, as transferred and vested in the Board of Control of Eleemosynary Institutions by Ga. L. 1931, p. 7, Section 44A, are vested in the Department of Human Services.   The functions, duties, and authority of the Department of Family and Children Services, created in Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, as amended, are vested in the Department of Human Services.   The functions of the State Board for Children and Youth, created in Ga. L. 1963, p. 81, except for the policy-making functions transferred to the Board of Human Resources, are vested in the Department of Human Services.   The functions, duties, and authority of the State Commission on Aging, created in Ga. L. 1962, p. 602, except the policy-making functions transferred to the Board of Human Services, are vested in the Department of Human Services.    (Ga. L. 1972, p. 1015, §§ 15, 1203, 1204, 1212, 1213; Ga. L. 1978, p. 239, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 11; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL    Position of director, office of aging, may be placed in classified service of merit system only by act of General Assembly.  1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 74-32.
GA Code § 49-2-8 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-8. Approval of Physicians Employed by Department

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228, effective July 1, 2009.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Ga. L. 1972, p. 1069, § 7.
GA Code § 49-2-9 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-9. Powers of Department in Administering and Disbursing Funds

 In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for welfare purposes, the department shall have the power:    To make use of all local processes to enforce the minimum standards prescribed under or pursuant to the laws providing for grants-in-aid; and   To administer and disburse any and all funds which may be allocated by any municipality of the state or private organization or society for such purposes as may be designated by such municipality or other agency. The department may use a reasonable percentage of such funds for administrative costs, not to exceed 10 percent of the total sum administered.    (Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 8; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Heating Energy Assistance Team funds.   - Department of Human Resources may utilize the local departments of family and children services to distribute Heating Energy Assistance Team (HEAT) funds to needy persons as contemplated by the HEAT program. 1983 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 83-8.   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 64A C.J.S., Municipal Corporations, § 2095.
GA Code § 49-2-10 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-10. State Appropriations; State, County, and Federal Welfare Funds Are for Public Purpose

 For the purpose of carrying out the duties and obligations of the department for performance of welfare services of the state, for administrative costs, for matching such federal funds as may be available for all of the aforesaid services, for the purpose of establishing an equalization fund to be used in assisting those counties which may be unable otherwise to bear their proportionate share of the expenses of administration and of dispensing the benefits provided for under this title, and for dispensing all of the benefits provided for under this title, the General Assembly shall make appropriations out of the general fund of the state or otherwise for the various and separate activities of the department. All funds appropriated or allocated to the department or to the county departments by the General Assembly, the fiscal authorities of the respective counties, and by the federal government through its appropriate agencies and instrumentalities are declared to be funds provided for a public purpose; and all appropriations provided for in this Code section and hereafter may be expended and distributed by the department for the purposes provided for under this title.   (Ga. L. 1937, p. 355, § 16; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   RESEARCH REFERENCES   Am. Jur. 2d.   - 63C Am. Jur. 2d, Public Funds, §§ 70, 72.
GA Code § 49-2-12 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-12. Development and Revision of Transportation Plan for Programs of Department

  All divisions and sections within the department shall make an inventory of all the various vehicles to which the department holds title and shall investigate their utilization patterns in order to establish and develop a consolidated and coordinated transportation plan for the various human services programs of the department, including, but not limited to, those programs relating to the aged and to the mentally and physically disabled.   Other departments and agencies of the state shall cooperate with the Department of Human Services in mutually beneficial agreements regarding the establishment and development of a coordinated transportation plan involving various vehicles to which the state has title.   The plan required to be developed under this Code section shall identify the fully allocated costs of the transportation component of their services and take into consideration various limitations on the expenditure of federal funds which may arise in any consolidated or coordinated transportation system. No later than June 30, 1980, a preliminary transportation plan shall be submitted by the department to the Human Relations and Aging Committee of the House of Representatives and the Education and Youth Committee of the Senate, which plan shall be revised and submitted to such committees every two years thereafter.    (Ga. L. 1980, p. 1008, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 49; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 14; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-13 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-13. Identifying Transportation Needs of the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities and Alternatives to Meet Needs

 All divisions and sections within the department, in cooperation with the Department of Transportation, shall identify those areas of the state where the general transportation needs of the elderly and persons with disabilities are not and cannot be adequately served by bus service and community service centers furnishing transportation. In further cooperation with the Department of Transportation, the department shall identify alternatives for meeting the transportation needs of these persons and shall report to the committees specified in subsection (c) of Code Section 49-2-12 as required therein. Such alternative means to be considered for providing for the transportation needs of these persons should include, but shall not be limited to:    Contract service resulting from competitive bidding by private sector bus operators operating under Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 46;   Contract service resulting from competitive bidding by taxi operators;   Negotiated fee basis with municipal and area-wide transportation systems serving the general public; or   Any combination of paragraphs (1) through (3) of this Code section.    (Ga. L. 1980, p. 1008, § 2; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 16; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 49/SB 46; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-13.1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-13.1. Financial Assistance for Transportation Services for the Elderly and Persons With Disabilities

  The department may, when funds are available from the United States government for such purposes, provide financial assistance with such funds, or such funds and state general funds appropriated for these purposes, to private nonprofit corporations and associations for the specific purpose of assisting them in providing transportation services meeting the special needs of the elderly or persons with disabilities, or both, for whom the department determines that the mass transportation services planned, designed, and carried out by local public bodies, agencies, and authorities are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. Such financial assistance shall be subject to those terms, conditions, requirements, and restrictions as the department determines to be necessary or appropriate in order to carry out the purposes of this Code section.   In order to effectuate and enforce this Code section, the department is authorized to promulgate necessary rules and regulations and to prescribe conditions and procedures in order to assure compliance in carrying out the purposes of this Code section.     (Code 1981, §49-2-13.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 915, § 3; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, § 16; Ga. L. 1996, p. 6, § 49; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-15 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-15. Service of Notice Against Department

 When any action is brought against the Department of Human Services, the Board of Human Services, the commissioner of human services, or any employee or agent thereof or when any action is brought in which the department could be held responsible for damages awarded in such action, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff to provide for service of notice of the pendency of such action by providing for service of a second original process, issued from the court in which the action is filed, upon the commissioner of human services personally or upon a person designated by the commissioner in writing to serve as agent for the acceptance of such service of process. The service of process in such action shall not be perfected until such second original process has been served as provided in this Code section. The provisions of this Code section shall be cumulative of any other requirements imposed by law for the service of process or notice.    (Code 1981, §49-2-15, enacted by Ga. L. 1989, p. 497, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 1989, p. 497, § 2, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that the amendment to this Code section by the Act shall apply to all actions filed on or after July 1, 1989.   JUDICIAL DECISIONS   No application to review of decision on placing person on child abuse registry.    - Alleged child abuser properly served the Department of Human Services with a petition for judicial review of a decision to place the alleged abuser on the child abuse registry, under former O.C.G.A. § 49-5-183, by serving the attorneys who had represented the department before the administrative law judge; the alleged abuser was not required to serve the commissioner of the department. O.C.G.A. § 49-2-15, requiring service on the commissioner by second original process in actions against the department, did not apply. Schuman v. Dep't of Human Servs., 354 Ga. App. 509, 841 S.E.2d 218 (2020).
GA Code § 49-2-16 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-16. Council for Welfare Administration

 Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2015, p. 552, § 12/SB 138, effective July 1, 2015.   Editor's notes.   - This Code section was based on Code 1981, § 49-2-16, enacted by Ga. L. 1996, p. 1423, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.
GA Code § 49-2-18 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-2-18. Director of Division of Family and Children Services; Appointment; Qualifications

  The Governor shall appoint the director of the Division of Family and Children Services of the department who shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor. The director shall be an employee of the department but shall report directly to the Governor.   The director shall have a college degree and at least one of the following qualifications:   Educational background or managerial experience involving work with vulnerable populations;   Work experience in a setting dealing with the safety or well-being of children or other vulnerable populations; or   Experience working in or managing a complex, multidisciplinary business or government agency.       (Code 1981, §49-2-18, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 552, § 1/SB 138.)
GA Code § 49-2-20 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-20. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Inspection warrant" means a warrant authorizing a search or inspection of private property where such a search or inspection is one that is necessary for the enforcement of a residential child care licensing law.   "Residential child care licensing law" means this chapter and Chapter 5 of this title and any rule or regulation duly promulgated thereunder.     (Code 1981, §49-2-20, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "this article" was substituted for "this part" in the introductory language of this Code section.
GA Code § 49-2-21 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-21. Persons Who May Obtain Inspection Warrants; Authorization of Searches or Inspections of Property

 The commissioner or the commissioner's designee, in addition to other procedures now or hereafter provided, may obtain an inspection warrant under the conditions specified in this article. Such warrant shall authorize the commissioner or the commissioner's designee to conduct a search or inspection of property either with or without the consent of the person whose property is to be searched or inspected if such search or inspection is one that is elsewhere authorized under the rules and regulations duly promulgated pursuant to a residential child care licensing law.    (Code 1981, §49-2-21, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "this article" was substituted for "this part" at the end of the first sentence in this Code section.
GA Code § 49-2-22 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-22. Procedure for Issuance of Inspection Warrants

  Inspection warrants shall be issued only by a judge of a court of record whose territorial jurisdiction encompasses the property to be inspected.   The issuing judge shall issue the warrant when the judge is satisfied that the following conditions are met:   The one seeking the warrant must establish under oath or affirmation that the property to be inspected is to be inspected as a part of a legally authorized program of inspection which includes that property or that there is probable cause for believing that there is a condition, object, activity, or circumstance which legally justifies such an inspection of that property; and   The issuing judge determines that the issuance of the warrant is authorized by this article.       (Code 1981, §49-2-22, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "this article" was substituted for "this part" at the end of paragraph (b)(2).
GA Code § 49-2-23 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-23. Requirements for Validly Issued Inspection Warrant; Contents of Warrant

 The inspection warrant shall be validly issued only if it meets the following requirements:    The warrant is attached to the affidavit required to be made in order to obtain the warrant;   The warrant describes either directly or by reference to the affidavit the property upon which the inspection is to occur and is sufficiently accurate that the executor of the warrant and the owner or possessor of the property can reasonably determine from it the property of which the warrant authorizes an inspection;   The warrant indicates the conditions, objects, activities, or circumstances which the inspection is intended to check or reveal; and   The warrant refers in general terms to the statutory or regulatory provisions sought to be enforced.     (Code 1981, §49-2-23, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-2-24 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-24. Evidence Generated Inadmissible in Criminal Proceedings

 No facts discovered or evidence obtained in an inspection conducted under authority of an inspection warrant issued pursuant to this article shall be competent as evidence in any criminal proceeding against any party.    (Code 1981, §49-2-24, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, "this article" was substituted for "this part" in this Code section.
GA Code § 49-2-25 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 2 - Department of Human Services|Article 2 - Inspection Warrants for Residential Child Care Licensing|§ 49-2-25. Proceedings for Injunction for Purpose of Enjoining Violations of Provisions of Residential Child Care Licensing Law; Injunction to Abate Public Nuisance Injurious to Public Health, Safety, or Comfort

 The Department of Human Services is empowered to institute appropriate proceedings for injunction in the courts of competent jurisdiction in this state for the purpose of enjoining a violation of any provision of a residential child care licensing law as now existing or as may be hereafter amended or of any regulation or order duly issued by the board or department. The department is also empowered to maintain action for injunction to abate any public nuisance which is injurious to the public health, safety, or comfort. Such actions may be maintained notwithstanding the fact that such violation also constitutes a crime and notwithstanding that other adequate remedies at law exist. Such actions may be instituted in the name of the department in the county in which a violation of any provision of this title occurs.    (Code 1981, §49-2-25, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-1/HB 228.)
GA Code § 49-4-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 49 - Social Services|Chapter 4 - Public Assistance|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 49-4-1. Short Title

 The short title of this article shall be "Georgia Public Assistance Act of 1965."   (Ga. L. 1965, p. 385, § 1.)   Law reviews.   - For note discussing the denial of social security benefits to dependent children pursuant to substitute father provisions as violative of due process, prior to the 1967 amendments to the Georgia Public Assistance Act (O.C.G.A. § 49-4-1 et seq.), see 15 J. of Pub. L. 349 (1966).   JUDICIAL DECISIONS    Cited in Howell v. Harden, 129 Ga. App. 200, 198 S.E.2d 890 (1973); Tellis v. Saucier, 133 Ga. App. 779, 213 S.E.2d 39 (1975); Dix v. State, 156 Ga. App. 868, 275 S.E.2d 807 (1981); So v. Ledbetter, 209 Ga. App. 666, 434 S.E.2d 517 (1993); Fedina v. Larichev, 322 Ga. App. 76, 744 S.E.2d 72 (2013).