Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 2. ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, ADDICTIVE DISEASES, AND OTHER DISABILITY SERVICES · Article 2. ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL DISABILITY SERVICES · Part 1. OFFICE OF DISABILITY SERVICES OMBUDSMAN

37-2-42. Immunity from civil and criminal liability for providing certain information to ombudsman.

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

No person providing information, including but not limited to a consumer’s records, to the 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.

History

Code 1981, § 37-2-42, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 133, § 3/HB 535.

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Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 124; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.