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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 29. COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES OF STATE INSTITUTIONS WHO CONTRACT TUBERCULOSIS OR INFECTIOUS HEPATITIS

31-29-3. Periodic physical examinations of persons receiving compensation.

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

  1. Any institution, agency, or department having employees qualifying for compensation under Code Section 31-29-1 may require periodic physical examinations of such employees to determine if each such employee has recovered sufficiently to resume his duties without danger of spreading the infection. If an employee is found to have recovered sufficiently, he must forthwith return to his duties. In the event of failure to do so, he shall be removed from the payroll of the institution, agency, or 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, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 513, § 4; Code 1933, § 88-2404, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 737, § 1.

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

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