Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 3. EXAMINATION, TREATMENT, ETC., FOR MENTAL ILLNESS · Article 6. RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES OF PATIENTS, THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, ETC., GENERALLY · Part 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

37-3-141. Patients’ right to legal counsel.

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

It shall be the responsibility of the department to see that every patient is given the opportunity to secure legal counsel at his own expense to represent him in connection with private, personal, domestic, business, civil, criminal, and all other legal matters in which he may be involved during hospitalization.

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 1933, § 88-502.12, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-502.15, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1789, § 1.

Cross references

Right of legal counsel generally, U.S. Const. amend. 6, and Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XIV.

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

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, pages 197 to 198; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.