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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-1-6. Reuse of heart pacemakers.

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

  1. (a)

    As used in this Code section, the term:#

    1. (1)

      “Heart pacemaker” means any electrical device which stimulates the heart muscle so that it contracts at a certain or regular rate.#

    2. (2)

      “Medically acceptable” means conforming to prevailing medical standards of cleanliness and manufacturers’ applicable standards for functional operation.#

    3. (3)

      “Person” includes the following:#

      1. (A)

        Any hospital, surgeon, or physician;#

      2. (B)

        Any accredited medical school, college, or university;#

      3. (C)

        Any licensed, accredited, or approved bank or storage facility of human bodies or parts; or#

      4. (D)

        Any specified individual needing implantation of a heart pacemaker.#

  2. (b)

    Any person shall be authorized to receive and reuse a heart pacemaker, provided that such device is medically acceptable for its proposed reuse.#

  3. (c)

    This Code section shall not apply to the receipt and reuse of a nuclear-powered pacemaker.#

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, § 31-1-6, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1034, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 31(1)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted “, as defined in subsection (a) of this Code section” following “Any person” in subsection (b).

Cross references

Disposition of heart pacemakers, § 53-4-73.

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

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

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 28; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.