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

O.C.G.A. § 26-2-374 (2019)

Contents and posting of notices relating to assistance to persons choking; relief from civil liability of persons rendering emergency aid

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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) The Department of Public Health shall print and distribute notices to every food service establishment in this state explaining the proper procedures to be taken to assist or aid persons who are choking. The notices shall contain such information as is found appropriate or necessary by the department and shall be posted and maintained by the food service establishment in a conspicuous place or places on the premises as required by the department.

(b) Any person who renders emergency aid in good faith to persons who are choking, without any charge for his services, shall not be liable for any civil damages for any act or omission in rendering such emergency aid or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange for further treatment or care for such persons.

History

Code 1933, § 88-1004.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1979, p. 1272, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 63/HB 214.

Annotations

Cross references. Relief from civil liability of persons rendering emergency care generally, § 51-129.

Law reviews. For comment, “Good Samaritan Laws - Legal Disarray: An Update,” see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 1439 (1987). For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Construction and application of “Good Samaritan” statutes, 68 A.L.R.4th 294.