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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 2A. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-2A-15. Additional duties of commissioner; authority to convene expert panels and consult with experts.

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

  1. (a)

    In addition to other authority and duties granted in this title, the commissioner shall:#

    1. (1)

      Provide a written report of expenditures made for public health purposes in the prior fiscal year to the Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Lieutenant Governor no later than December 1 of each year beginning December 1, 2010; and#

    2. (2)

      Serve as the chief liaison to county boards of health through their directors on matters related to the operations and programmatic responsibilities of such county boards of health; provided, however, the commissioner may designate a person from within the department to serve as such chief liaison.#

  2. (b)

    The commissioner shall be authorized to convene one or more panels of experts to address various public health issues and may consult with experts on epidemiological and emergency preparedness issues.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

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

Code 1981, § 31-2-18, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-1/HB 228; Code 1981, § 31-2A-15, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 3-2/HB 214.

Law reviews

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

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

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 116 to 117; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.