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Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 10A. SAFE PLACE FOR NEWBORNS

19-10A-2. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Fire station” means a facility of any fire department which is authorized to exercise the general and emergency powers enumerated in Code Sections 25-3-1 and 25-3-2.#

  3. (2)

    “Medical facility” means any licensed general or specialized hospital, institutional infirmary, health center operated by a county board of health, or facility where human births occur on a regular and ongoing basis which is classified by the Department of Community Health as a birthing center, but shall not mean physicians’ or dentists’ private offices.#

  4. (3)

    “Police station” means a facility of any sheriff’s office, municipal police department, or county police department.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 19-10A-2, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1137, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 2-1/SB 433; Ga. L. 2017, p. 522, § 1/HB 391.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-2022-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, pages 1108 to 1109; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.