Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 6. STATE HEALTH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-6-3. Medical use rights; prohibitions.

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(a)
As used in this Code section, the term “medical use rights” means rights or interests in real property in which the owner of the property has agreed not to sell or lease such real property for identified medical uses or purposes.#
(b)
It shall be unlawful for any health care facility to purchase, renew, extend, lease, maintain, or hold medical use rights.#
(c)
This Code section shall not be construed to impair any contracts in existence as of July 1, 2019.#

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.

Code 1981, § 31-6-3, enacted by Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 1-2/HB 186.

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2019, “July 1, 2019” was substituted for “the effective date of this Code section” at the end of subsection (c).

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