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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 23. EYE BANKS

31-23-9. Prohibited acts; penalty.

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

  1. (a)

    It shall be unlawful:#

    1. (1)

      For any person to sell either his eyes or any parts thereof or the eyes or any parts thereof of another person or to receive any remuneration for the giving of a human eye or any part thereof;#

    2. (2)

      For the person or persons operating and maintaining any eye bank to sell any donated eye or donated part thereof or knowingly to extract, remove, or take possession of any human eye or part thereof for which any person received compensation or remuneration; or#

    3. (3)

      For any person or persons to establish or operate any eye bank without approval of the department or otherwise not in accordance with this chapter.#

  2. (b)

    Any person who violates any provision of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.#

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. 1961, p. 582, § 9; Code 1933, § 88-2009, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1499, § 5.

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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 901; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.