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title: O.C.G.A. § 31-11-50. Medical adviser.
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# O.C.G.A. § 31-11-50. Medical adviser.

(a) To enhance the provision of emergency medical care, each ambulance service shall be required to have a medical adviser. The adviser shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state and subject to approval by the medical consultant of the Emergency Health Section of the Department of Public Health. Ambulance services unable to obtain a medical adviser, due to unavailability or refusal of physicians to act as medical advisers, may request the district health director or his or her designee to act as medical adviser until the services of a physician are available.

(b) The duties of the medical adviser shall be to provide medical direction and training for the ambulance service personnel in conformance with acceptable emergency medical practices and procedures.

(c) This Code section shall not apply to any ambulance service which solely provides transportation for necessary personnel, organs, tissue, or medical supplies to a time-critical organ transplant procedure by emergency organ transport vehicles or any county having a population under 12,000 according to the United States decennial census of 1970 or any such future census.

## History

Code 1933, § 88-3118, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1170, § 1A; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-36/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-1/HB 214; Ga. L. 2025, p. 286, § 8/SB 58, effective July 1, 2025.

## Cross References

Medical Practice Act of the State of Georgia, § 43-34-20 et seq.

## Editor's Notes

Ga. L. 2025, p. 286, § 1/SB 58, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Transporting Life-Saving Organs and Personnel Act.’”

## Law Reviews

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

## Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, inserted “any ambulance service which solely provides transportation for necessary personnel, organs, tissue, or medical supplies to a time-critical organ transplant procedure by emergency organ transport vehicles or” in subsection (c).