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Title 26. FOOD, DRUGS, AND COSMETICS · Chapter 5. DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS · Article 2. NARCOTIC TREATMENT PROGRAMS ENFORCEMENT

26-5-41. Definitions.

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

Effective January 1, 2026.In force today: Effective January 1, 2026.

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Department” means the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities.#

  3. (2)

    “Governing body” means the community service board, the partnership, the corporation, the association, or the person or group of persons who maintains and controls a narcotic treatment program, who is legally responsible for its operation, and who holds the license or provisional license to operate that program.#

  4. (3)

    “License” means the official permit issued by the department that authorizes the holder to operate a narcotic treatment program for the term provided therein.#

  5. (4)

    “Licensee” means any person holding a license or provisional license issued by the department under this article.#

  6. (5)

    “Narcotic treatment program” means any system of treatment provided for chronic heroin or opiate-like drug-dependent individuals that administers narcotic drugs under physicians’ orders either for detoxification purposes or for maintenance treatment in a rehabilitative context offered by any community service board, partnership, corporation, association, or person or groups of persons engaged in such administration.#

  7. (6)

    “Patient” means any individual who undergoes treatment in a narcotic treatment program.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 26-5-41, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 307, § 1/SB 88; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 26/SB 365; Ga. L. 2025, p. 177, § 1-6/HB 584, effective January 1, 2026.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 26-5-41 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective January 1, 2026. For version effective until January 1, 2026, see the preceding version.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective January 1, 2026, substituted “Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities” for “Department of Community Health or its successor” in paragraph (1); in paragraph (2), substituted “community service board” for “county board of health” and inserted “or provisional license” near the end; inserted “or provisional license” in paragraph (4); and substituted “community service board” for “county board of health” in paragraph (5).

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 91 to 92; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.

Effective until January 1, 2026.No longer in force as printed (Effective until January 1, 2026.)

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Department” means the Department of Community Health or its successor.#

  3. (2)

    “Governing body” means the county board of health, the partnership, the corporation, the association, or the person or group of persons who maintains and controls a narcotic treatment program, who is legally responsible for its operation, and who holds the license to operate that program.#

  4. (3)

    “License” means the official permit issued by the department that authorizes the holder to operate a narcotic treatment program for the term provided therein.#

  5. (4)

    “Licensee” means any person holding a license issued by the department under this article.#

  6. (5)

    “Narcotic treatment program” means any system of treatment provided for chronic heroin or opiate-like drug-dependent individuals that administers narcotic drugs under physicians’ orders either for detoxification purposes or for maintenance treatment in a rehabilitative context offered by any county board of health, partnership, corporation, association, or person or groups of persons engaged in such administration.#

  7. (6)

    “Patient” means any individual who undergoes treatment in a narcotic treatment program.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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, § 26-5-41, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 307, § 1/SB 88; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1112, § 26/SB 365.

Delayed effective date

Code Section 26-5-41 is set out twice in this Code. This version is effective until January 1, 2026. For version effective January 1, 2026, see the following version.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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

Text read from t25-t26-(v21)-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 90 to 91; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 dee9b563c5d6.