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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 11. PSYCHIATRIC ADVANCE DIRECTIVE

37-11-7. Persons ineligible to serve as agents.

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

  1. The following persons shall not serve as a declarant’s agent:

  2. (1)

    Such declarant’s provider or an employee of that provider unless such employee is a family member, friend, or associate of such declarant and is not directly involved in such declarant’s mental health care; or#

  3. (2)

    An employee of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities or of a local public mental health agency or of any organization that contracts with a local public mental health authority unless such employee is a family member, friend, or associate of such declarant and is not directly involved in such declarant’s mental health care.#

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, § 37-11-7, 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 122; merge action: added; file SHA-256 6e7899178423.