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Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 8. CARE AND PROTECTION OF INDIGENT AND ELDERLY PATIENTS · Article 6. INDIGENT CARE TRUST FUND

31-8-151. Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Department” means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 2 of this title.#

  3. (2)

    “Medically indigent” means a person who meets the state-wide standards of indigency adopted by the department for the purposes of this article.#

  4. (3)

    “Trust fund” means the Indigent Care Trust Fund created by Code Section 31-8-152.#

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, § 31-8-151, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 9; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-8/HB 228.

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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 556 to 557; merge action: bound only; file SHA-256 ba5a57f85d04.