31-17-1. Sexually transmitted diseases.

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

As used in this chapter, the term “sexually transmitted diseases” means syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and any other diseases that the Department of Public Health, through rule or regulation, declares to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and 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. 1918, p. 275, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-501; Code 1933, § 88-1601, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 55, § 8/SB 372; Ga. L. 2024, p. 143, § 3/HB 1028, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, substituted the current provisions of this Code section for the former provisions, which read: “Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, hereinafter referred to as sexually transmitted diseases, are declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health.”

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

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