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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 28. TOURIST COURTS

31-28-5. Standards for health, sanitation, and safety.

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

  1. (a)

    The Department of Public Health and county boards of health shall have the power to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to ensure the protection of the public health. Such rules and regulations shall prescribe reasonable standards for health, sanitation, and safety of tourist courts with regard to:#

    1. (1)

      Location, drainage, and maintenance of grounds;#

    2. (2)

      Size, ventilation, and maintenance of sleeping rooms, toilet and washrooms, and laundry rooms, where provided;#

    3. (3)

      Installation of all electrical equipment and exposed electrical wiring;#

    4. (4)

      Heating appliances and equipment, and installation thereof;#

    5. (5)

      Water supply, plumbing fixtures and installations;#

    6. (6)

      Sewage disposal;#

    7. (7)

      Garbage and refuse disposal;#

    8. (8)

      Control of vermin;#

    9. (9)

      Accident prevention; and#

    10. (10)

      Spacing of trailer coaches and lighting of trailer parks.#

  2. (b)

    County boards of health are empowered to adopt and promulgate supplementary rules and regulations consistent with those adopted and promulgated by the department.#

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. 475, § 5; Code 1933, § 88-1105, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214.

Cross references

Standards and requirements for construction of buildings generally, § 8-2-1 et seq.

Law reviews

For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).

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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, pages 915 to 916; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.