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Title 30. HANDICAPPED PERSONS · Chapter 6. PERSONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

30-6-3. ‘‘Personal assistance’’ defined.

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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 ‘‘personal assistance’’ means assistance which is required by a person with severe disabilities to achieve greater independence and which includes, but is not limited to, assistance with:

  2. (1)

    Routine bodily functions such as bowel or bladder care;#

  3. (2)

    Dressing;#

  4. (3)

    Household management, including, but not limited to, housecleaning and personal correspondence;#

  5. (4)

    Preparation and consumption of food;#

  6. (5)

    Moving in and out of bed;#

  7. (6)

    Routine bathing;#

  8. (7)

    Transportation, community errands, and activities; and#

  9. (8)

    Any other similar activity of daily living.#

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, § 30-6-3, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 1355, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 399, § 1.

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 t27-t30-(v22)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V22, 2018 edition, pages 833 to 834; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 62359f240c92.