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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 26. PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY

31-26-1. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Midwife” means any person not licensed under the laws of this state to practice obstetrics who is regularly engaged in attending women in childbirth or who holds himself or herself out as such, whether or not for consideration.#

  3. (2)

    “Normal childbirth” means delivery, at or close to term, of a pregnant woman whose physical examination by a physician reveals no abnormalities and who does not have signs or symptoms of hemorrhage, toxemia, infection, abnormal position or presentation, or prolonged labor.#

  4. (3)

    “Practice of midwifery” means and includes any act or practice of attending women in childbirth when engaged in by a midwife, whether or not for consideration.#

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. 1955, p. 252, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-1401, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.

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

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