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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 14. HOSPITALIZATION FOR TUBERCULOSIS

31-14-1. Active tuberculosis; declaration of policy.

Active

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

  1. (a)

    As used in this chapter, the term “active tuberculosis” means a diagnosis demonstrated by clinical, bacteriologic, or diagnostic imaging evidence, or a combination thereof. Persons who have been diagnosed as having active tuberculosis and have not completed a course of antituberculosis treatment are still considered to have active tuberculosis and may be infectious.#

  2. (b)

    Active tuberculosis is declared to be dangerous to the 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

Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 348, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-701, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1513, § 1/SB 56.

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

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