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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 49. SOCIAL SERVICES · Chapter 7. FAMILY-PLANNING SERVICES

49-7-2. 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)

    “Agencies” means the department, county boards of health, health districts, county departments of family and children services, and district departments of family and children services.#

  3. (2)

    “Family-planning services” means counseling and interviews with trained personnel regarding birth control, infertility, and family-planning methods and procedures; distribution of literature relating to birth control, infertility, and family planning; referral to licensed physicians or local health departments for consultation, examination, tests, medical treatment, and prescriptions for the purposes of birth control, infertility, and family planning; and, to the extent prescribed, the distribution of rhythm charts, drugs, medical preparations, contraceptive devices, and similar products used for birth control and family planning.#

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. 1966, p. 228, § 2.

Administrative rules and regulations

Serologic test for pregnant women, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Public Health, Health Promotion, § 511-5-4-.01 et seq.

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

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