Official Code of Georgia Annotated
Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 11. PSYCHIATRIC ADVANCE DIRECTIVE
37-11-11. Inclusion in medical record; continuing consent.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- (a)
Upon being presented with a psychiatric advance directive, a provider or facility shall make the directive a part of a declarant’s medical record.#
- (b)
In the absence of specific knowledge of the revocation or invalidity of a directive, a provider or facility providing mental health care to a declarant may presume that a person who executed a psychiatric advance directive in accordance with this chapter was of sound mind and acted voluntarily when executing such directive and may rely upon a psychiatric advance directive or a copy of that directive.#
- (c)
A provider or facility shall be authorized to act in accordance with a directive when a declarant is incapable of making mental health care decisions.#
- (d)
A provider or facility shall continue to obtain a declarant’s consent to all mental health care decisions if he or she is capable of providing consent or refusal.#
Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.
History
Code 1981, § 37-11-11, enacted by Ga. L. 2022, p. 611, § 1-1/HB 752.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, 2025 supplement, page 125; merge action: added; file SHA-256 6e7899178423.