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title: O.C.G.A. § 31-7-176.1. Determination or pronouncement of death.
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# O.C.G.A. § 31-7-176.1. Determination or pronouncement of death.

When a patient who is terminally ill or whose death is anticipated and who is receiving hospice care from a licensed hospice dies, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner, or a registered professional nurse licensed in this state and employed by such hospice at the time of apparent death of such person, in the absence of an attending physician, may make the determination and pronouncement of the death of said patient. Such determination or pronouncement shall be made in writing on a form approved by the commissioner of community health.

## History

Code 1981, § 31-7-176.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1392, § 2; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-6/HB 228; Ga. L. 2017, p. 625, § 2/SB 96.

## Law Reviews

For note on the 1992 enactment of this Code section, see 9 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 265 (1992).