31-14-12. Applicability of commitment provisions to persons who obey rules and regulations of department.

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

No person having active tuberculosis who, in his or her home or other place, obeys the rules and regulations of the department and county boards of health for the control of active tuberculosis or who voluntarily accepts care in a hospital or facility operated for the care of tuberculosis, in his or her home, or in another place and who obeys the rules and regulations of the department and completes the prescribed course of therapy for the control of active tuberculosis shall be committed as prescribed in this chapter.

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, § 13; Code 1933, § 88-713, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 620, § 6; 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.

Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, page 821; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.