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title: Title 43, Chapter 26. Nurses
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date: 2025
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heading: NURSES
title_heading: PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES
section_count: 43
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# Title 43, Chapter 26. Nurses

Title 43. Professions and Businesses

43 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 43-26-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-1.md
- 43-26-2, Legislative intent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-2.md
- 43-26-3, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-3.md
- 43-26-4, Georgia Board of Nursing; membership; meetings; officers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-4.md
- 43-26-5, General powers and responsibilities of board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-5.md
- 43-26-6, Use of certain titles and abbreviations by licensed nurses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-6.md
- 43-26-7, Requirements for licensure as registered professional nurse; requirements for nontraditional nursing education program, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-7.md
- 43-26-7.1, Requirements for licensure as advanced practice registered nurse, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-7.1.md
- 43-26-8, Temporary permits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-8.md
- 43-26-9, Biennial renewal of licenses; continuing competency requirements; voluntary surrender or failure to renew license; restoration and reissuance of license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-9.md
- 43-26-9.1, Inactive status; restoration of inactive license; nurses on inactive status barred from practicing, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-9.1.md
- 43-26-10, Practicing without a license prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-10.md
- 43-26-11, Denial or revocation of licenses; other discipline, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-11.md
- 43-26-11.1, Administration of anesthesia by certified registered nurse anesthetist, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-11.1.md
- 43-26-12, Exceptions to operation of article; burden of proof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-12.md
- 43-26-13, Certain information given to the board by licensees; references to rural hospital organizations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-13.md
- 43-26-30, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-30.md
- 43-26-31, Purpose of article, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-31.md
- 43-26-32, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-32.md
- 43-26-33, Use of titles and abbreviations by licensed practical nurses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-33.md
- 43-26-34, Board of examiners created; appointment of members; terms; filling of vacancies; meetings; reimbursement of expenses, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-34.md
- 43-26-35, Duties of board generally, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-35.md
- 43-26-36, Application for licensure; examination; provisional licensure of military medical personnel, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-36.md
- 43-26-36.1, Fingerprint record and criminal background checks for applicants for licensure; fees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-36.1.md
- 43-26-37, Issuance of license upon passing examination; further educational and training requirements for applicants failing to pass examination within certain period of time, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-37.md
- 43-26-38, License by endorsement; temporary permit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-38.md
- 43-26-39, Renewal of license; continuing competency requirements; voluntary surrender; application for reinstatement; temporary permit, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-39.md
- 43-26-40, Refusal to grant license; revocation of license; disciplining of licensees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-40.md
- 43-26-41, Exceptions to licensure requirements; burden of proof, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-41.md
- 43-26-42, Criminal violations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-42.md
- 43-26-43, Termination, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-43.md
- 43-26-50, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-50.md
- 43-26-51, Mandatory reporting requirement for violations of grounds for discipline; no reporting requirement for knowledge obtained via privileged communications, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-51.md
- 43-26-52, Institutional reporting requirements; voluntary submission to alternative to discipline program not subject to reporting requirement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-52.md
- 43-26-53, Reportable incidents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-53.md
- 43-26-54, Court order; citation for civil contempt, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-54.md
- 43-26-55, Immunity from liability for good-faith reporting, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-55.md
- 43-26-60, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-60.md
- 43-26-61, Compact enacted and entered into by the State of Georgia; text of compact, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-61.md
- 43-26-62, Rules and regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-62.md
- 43-26-63, Nurse Licensure Compact administrator, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-63.md
- 43-26-64, Statutes applicable to nurses practicing under multistate license, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-64.md
- 43-26-65, Applicability of article to nurses whose states have substantially similar licensure requirements, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/43-26-65.md