19-10A-8. Posting of signs at medical facilities, fire stations, or police stations indicating authorized location for leaving newborns.

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

The Department of Human Services shall develop standards for a sign that shall be posted at any medical facility, fire station, or police station to inform the general public that such facility is an authorized location to leave a newborn child as provided in this chapter. The Department of Human Services shall provide by rule and regulation for the size and type of such sign and where such sign should be located within or outside of such facility.

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-8, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 195, § 1/HB 513.

Administrative rules and regulations

Standards for Size and Types of Signs, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Human Services, Administration, Safe Place for Newborns Act Signage, § 290-1-9-.01.

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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, page 1111; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 eddc877da9f2.