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Title 37. MENTAL HEALTH · Chapter 7. HOSPITALIZATION AND TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS, DRUG DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS, AND DRUG ABUSERS · Article 3. EXAMINATION, HOSPITALIZATION, AND TREATMENT OF INVOLUNTARY PATIENTS · Part 1. EMERGENCY RECEIVING FACILITIES FOR EXAMINATION OF PERSONS APPREHENDED PURSUANT TO PHYSICIAN’S CERTIFICATE OR COURT ORDER

37-7-40. Designation by department of emergency receiving facilities; reporting; penalty for noncompliance.

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

  1. (a)

    Any state owned or state operated facility may be designated by the department as an emergency receiving facility. The department shall maintain an emergency receiving facility at each Georgia regional hospital which shall accept, under Code Sections 37-7-41 through 37-7-44, patients found in any county in the service region of the hospital. Any other facility within the State of Georgia may be so designated by the department at the request of or with the consent of the governing officers of the facility.#

  2. (b)

    No later than January 15, 2023, any emergency receiving facility designated under this Code section shall report to the department de-identified, aggregated data with the total number of:#

    1. (1)

      Certificates received at the emergency receiving facility by county issued under subsection (a) of Code Section 37-7-41;#

    2. (2)

      Such certificates received at the emergency receiving facility by each type of licensed professional authorized under Code Section 37-7-41;#

    3. (3)

      Individuals examined in each emergency receiving facility designated or utilized by the department in accordance with subsection (a) of Code Section 37-7-41; and#

    4. (4)

      Individuals admitted to each emergency receiving facility designated or utilized by the department following an examination in accordance with subsection (a) of Code Section 37-7-41.#

  3. (c)

    The frequency of the reporting requirement required by subsection (b) of this Code section shall be determined by the department no later than December 31, 2021.#

  4. (d)

    Failure to submit the information required by subsection (b) of this Code section as directed by the department shall result in the suspension of a facility’s designation as an emergency receiving facility until the required reports are submitted to the department.#

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, § 88-404.6, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 273, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-404.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 2021, p. 686, § 3/HB 591. The 2021 amendment, effective July 1, 2021, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a) and added subsections (b) through (d).

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Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, pages 288 to 289; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.

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