--- title: Title 37, Chapter 2. Administration of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Addictive Diseases, and Other Disability Services collection: code id: code:chapter:37-2 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/37/chapter/2 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-1.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-3.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL HEALTH, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, ADDICTIVE DISEASES, AND OTHER DISABILITY SERVICES title_heading: MENTAL HEALTH section_count: 47 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2.md?full=1 --- # Title 37, Chapter 2. Administration of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Addictive Diseases, and Other Disability Services Title 37. Mental Health 47 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 37-2-1, Declaration of purpose, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-1.md - 37-2-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-2.md - 37-2-2.1, Creation of Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-2.1.md - 37-2-3, Designation of boundaries for mental health, development disabilities, and addictive diseases regions; community service board areas, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-3.md - 37-2-4, Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; membership; meetings; obligations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-4.md - 37-2-4.1, Local mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases offices; regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disease advisory councils, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-4.1.md - 37-2-5, Regional advisory councils — Establishing policy and direction for disability services; membership; bylaws; meetings; expenses, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-5.md - 37-2-5.1, Allocation of funds, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-5.1.md - 37-2-5.2, Local offices — Duties, functions, and powers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-5.2.md - 37-2-6, Community mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases service boards — Community service board creation; membership; participation of counties; transfer of powers and duties; alternate method of establishment; bylaws; reprisals prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.md - 37-2-6.1, Community service boards — Executive director, staff, budget, facilities; powers and duties; exemption from state and local taxation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.1.md - 37-2-6.2, Employees whose jobs include duties or functions which became duties or functions of a community service board on July 1, 1994; rights, duties, and benefits of employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.2.md - 37-2-6.3, Public body; lawsuits; debts, obligations, and liabilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.3.md - 37-2-6.4, Reconstituting or converting of organizational structure; formation of new community service board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.4.md - 37-2-6.5, Cessation of operations by community service board; notification; continuation of operations by successor board, county board of health, or outside manager, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-6.5.md - 37-2-7, Formulation and publication of state plan for disability services, reserved (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-7.md - 37-2-8, Unification of state and area service programs, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-8.md - 37-2-9, Coordination of disability services with related activities of other agencies and organizations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-9.md - 37-2-9.1, Compliance by regional planning boards and community service boards with laws as to open meetings and inspection of records; advisory boards, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-9.1.md - 37-2-10, Commissioner’s emergency powers upon failure of community service board to establish and administer programs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-10.md - 37-2-11, Allocation of available funds for services; recipients to meet minimum standards; accounting for fees generated by providers; discrimination in providing services prohibited, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-11.md - 37-2-11.1, Venue in actions against community service board; representation by Attorney General; immunity; use of legal counsel; authority for indemnification, defense, and insurance, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-11.1.md - 37-2-11.2, Access by the department, Department of Human Services, Department of Public Health, Department of Community Health, or regional office to records of any program receiving public funds; confidentiality, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-11.2.md - 37-2-12, Construction of chapter to avoid conflict with federal laws, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-12.md - 37-2-30, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-30.md - 37-2-31, Creation of office of disability services ombudsman, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-31.md - 37-2-32, Nominating committee to identify qualified candidates for ombudsman; committee membership; terms of service of ombudsman, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-32.md - 37-2-33, Powers of ombudsman, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-33.md - 37-2-34, Ombudsman and other office personnel deemed members of department work force for certain purposes, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-34.md - 37-2-35, Duties of ombudsman, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-35.md - 37-2-36, Investigations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-36.md - 37-2-37, Investigation report; referrals to division and other appropriate agencies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-37.md - 37-2-38, Confidentiality; disclosure of information, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-38.md - 37-2-39, Notice of complaint procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-39.md - 37-2-40, Discrimination or retaliation prohibited; sanctions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-40.md - 37-2-41, Federal financial participation; documentation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-41.md - 37-2-42, Immunity from civil and criminal liability for providing certain information to ombudsman, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-42.md - 37-2-43, Immunity from civil and criminal liability for filing complaint; ombudsman’s immunity for actions related to discharge of duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-43.md - 37-2-44, Statutory construction, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-44.md - 37-2-45, Medical review group to review the deaths of consumers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-45.md - 37-2-46, Notification of consumer’s death; time limits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-46.md - 37-2-47, Scope of part, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-47.md - 37-2-50, Additional powers and duties, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-50.md - 37-2-70, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-70.md - 37-2-71, Fee schedule for licensure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-71.md - 37-2-72, Findings and actions by department, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-72.md - 37-2-73, Emergency relocation of residents; monitoring; emergency orders; additional powers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-2-73.md