Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

31-8-155. Contributions; transfers and disbursements of funds.

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

(a)
The department shall establish by rules the purposes for which contributions and transfers to the trust fund may be made. Such purposes shall be consistent with the purposes contained in Code Section 31-8-154. Those rules shall be promulgated by the Board of Community Health pursuant to Chapter 13 of Title 50, the “Georgia Administrative Procedure Act,” notwithstanding any exclusion or exemption otherwise provided in that chapter.#
(b)
Contributions to the trust fund shall be made within such time periods as the department establishes by rule pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section.#
(c)
The department may make and execute contracts, agreements, and other instruments for the purpose of facilitating transfers to the trust fund.#
(d)
The department shall establish the manner of disbursement of any funds appropriated to it pursuant to this article.#

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, § 31-8-155, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 388, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 24.

Administrative rules and regulations

Indigent Care Trust Fund, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Community Health, Medical Assistance, Rule 111-3-6-.01 et seq.

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