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Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 34. PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE · Article 1. GEORGIA COMPOSITE MEDICAL BOARD

43-34-1. (See Editor’s notes.) Definitions.

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

  1. As used in this chapter, the term:

  2. (1)

    ‘‘Board’’ means the Georgia Composite Medical Board.#

  3. (2)

    ‘‘Physician’’ means a person licensed to practice medicine pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter.#

  4. (3)

    ‘‘To practice medicine,’’ ‘‘the practice of medicine,’’ or ‘‘practicing medicine’’ shall have the same meaning as in paragraph (3) of Code Section 43-34-21.#

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, § 43-34-1, enacted by Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.

Editor's notes

This Code section formerly pertained to persons authorized to perform surgery or other invasive procedures. The former Code section was based on Ga. L. 1950, p. 168, §§ 10, 14, 15; Ga. L. 1956, p. 36, §§ 2, 3, 4; Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8; and Ga. L. 1992, p. 2062, § 2, and was repealed by Ga. L. 1993, p. 349, § 1, effective April 5, 1993. For application of this statute in 2021, see Executive Order 01.22.21.07.

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Text read from t43-ch33-51-(v30a)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V30A, 2021 edition, page 68; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 6fb9eb45ca3a.