Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 4. PUBLIC ASSISTANCE · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

49-4-2. Definitions.

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

As used in this article, the term:
(1)
“Department” means the Department of Human Services and includes the county departments of family and children services and the agents, agencies, officers, and employees designated by the commissioner of human services to perform any function vested in the Department of Human Services by this article.#
(2)
“Public assistance” means payment in or by money, medical care, remedial care, goods, or services to or for the benefit of needy persons under any categories that may be established pursuant to this article.#
(3)
“Recipient” means a person to whom, or on whose behalf, public assistance is granted.#

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

Ga. L. 1965, p. 385, § 2; Ga. L. 1967, p. 878, § 1; Ga. L. 1977, p. 384, § 19; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228.

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, “commissioner of human services” was substituted for “commissioner of human resources” in paragraph (1).

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