Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 7. REGULATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE FACILITIES · Article 1. REGULATION OF HOSPITALS AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS

31-7-23. Surgical smoke.

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

(a)
As used in this Code section, the term “surgical smoke” means the gaseous by-product produced from the interaction of tools or heatproducing equipment used for dissection and hemostasis during surgical or invasive procedures.#
(b)
Each hospital and ambulatory surgical center shall adopt policies for the reduction of human exposure to surgical smoke.#

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History

Code 1981, § 31-7-23, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 673, § 1/SB 573.

Editor's notes

Former Code Section 31-7-23, which was repealed by Ga. L. 2008, p. 224, § 2/SB 130, effective July 1, 2008, was part of former Article 2 of this chapter, relating to the Georgia Building Authority (Hospital), and was based on Ga. L. 1939, p. 144, § 4; Ga. L. 1953, p. 357, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1402, § 18.

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Text read from t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf, Volume V23, 2025 edition, pages 337 to 338; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.

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