---
title: O.C.G.A. § 31-8-8. Agreements between department and other agencies and organizations to obtain funds.
collection: code
id: 31-8-8
cite_as: O.C.G.A. § 31-8-8 (2025)
canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8-8
md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8-8.md
text_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8-8/text
source_url: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/document/docs/default-source/joint-features-document-library/t31-(v23)-2025-pdf.pdf?sfvrsn=da7ded69_0#page=496
date: 2025
status: active
corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68
license: CC0-1.0
publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice.
up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8.md
previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8-7.md
next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/31-8-9.md
index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md
version: the only printed version
in_force: true
current_through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia
heading_path: HEALTH / CARE AND PROTECTION OF INDIGENT AND ELDERLY PATIENTS / HOSPITAL CARE FOR THE INDIGENT GENERALLY
---

# O.C.G.A. § 31-8-8. Agreements between department and other agencies and organizations to obtain funds.

The department is authorized and empowered to enter into agreements with other state departments and boards, agencies of the United States government, local governmental agencies, and voluntary organizations to obtain funds for hospital care that may be available for needy persons; and the department is authorized to administer any funds received under such agreements in conformity with this article; provided, however, that the authority granted in this article shall not prevent the department from complying with 42 U.S.C.A. Section 701, et seq.

## History

Ga. L. 1957, p. 470, § 10; Code 1933, § 88-2310, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31.