O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 30-1-1 (2019)

‘‘Deaf person’’ defined

✓ 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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As used in this title, the term ‘‘deaf person’’ means any person whose hearing is totally impaired or whose hearing is so seriously impaired as to prohibit the person from understanding oral communications spoken in a normal conversational tone.

History

(Ga. L. 1980, p. 1131, § 1.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Aid to disabled or illiterate in voter registration process,

§ 21-2-220. Hearing screenings for newborns, § 31-1-3.2.

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - To what extent are federal entities subject to suit under § 504(a) of Rehabilitation Act (29 USCA § 794(a)), which prohibits any program or activity

conducted by any executive agency or the postal service from discriminating on basis of disability, 146 A.L.R. Fed. 319.