Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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 6. RESPIRATORY CARE

43-34-142. Definitions.

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

For effective date of repeal, see note.In force today: For effective date of repeal, see note.

As used in this article, the term:
(1)
‘‘Board’’ means the Georgia Composite Medical Board.#
(2)
‘‘Respiratory care’’ means the rendering of services to patients with deficiencies or abnormalities which affect the pulmonary and cardiac systems and which services involve therapy, management, rehabilitation, diagnostic evaluation, education, or care of such patients with regard to such deficiencies or abnormalities.#
(3)
‘‘Respiratory care professional’’ means any person certified under this article to practice respiratory care.#

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, § 43-34-142, enacted by Ga. L. 1986, p. 264, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1497, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.

Editor's notes

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