O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-10-29 (2019)

Request for ambulance service when not reasonably needed

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to transmit in any manner a request for ambulance service to any person, firm, or corporation furnishing ambulance service, public or private, knowing at the time of making the request for ambulance service that there exists no reasonable need for such ambulance service.

(b) Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

(Ga. L. 1977, p. 797, §§ 1, 2.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Provision of emergency medical services generally, T. 31, C. 11.