Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 31. HEALTH · Chapter 8. CARE AND PROTECTION OF INDIGENT AND ELDERLY PATIENTS · Article 3. LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM

31-8-61. Liability for provision of information.

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

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person providing information, including, but not limited to, patient records, to the state ombudsman or a community ombudsman shall be held, by reason of having provided such information, to have violated any criminal law or to be civilly liable under any law unless such information is false and the person providing such information knew or had reason to believe that it was false.

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 1933, § 88-1913a, enacted by Ga. L. 1979, p. 1240, § 1.

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