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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-1-1. Definitions.

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

  1. Except as specifically provided otherwise, as used in this title, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Board” means the Board of Public Health.#

  3. (2)

    “Commissioner” means the commissioner of public health.#

  4. (3)

    “Department” means the Department of Public Health.#

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, § 31-1-1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 2-7/SB 433; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-2/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 3-5/HB 214.

Editor's notes

This Code section was created as part of the Code revision and was thus enacted by Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8 (Code enactment Act).

Law reviews

For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).

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