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O.C.G.A. § 31-11-50 — Medical adviser | Georgia Code
O.C.G.A. § 31-11-50 (2018) Copy Cite Official Site Syfertize CourtListener Scholar Amendments

TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 11. Emergency Medical Services, 31-11-1 through 31-11-139.

ARTICLE 3 PERSONNEL

31-11-50. Medical adviser.

  1. To enhance the provision of emergency medical care, each ambulance service shall be required to have a medical adviser. The adviser shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state and subject to approval by the medical consultant of the Emergency Health Section of the Department of Public Health. Ambulance services unable to obtain a medical adviser, due to unavailability or refusal of physicians to act as medical advisers, may request the district health director or his or her designee to act as medical adviser until the services of a physician are available.
  2. The duties of the medical adviser shall be to provide medical direction and training for the ambulance service personnel in conformance with acceptable emergency medical practices and procedures.
  3. This Code section shall not apply to any county having a population under 12,000 according to the United States decennial census of 1970 or any such future census.

(Code 1933, § 88-3118, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1170, § 1A; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-36/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-1/HB 214.)

The 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, substituted "Department of Public Health" for "Division of Public Health of the Department of Community Health" in the second sentence of subsection (a).

Cross references.

- Licensing of physicians, § 43-34-20 et seq.

Law reviews.

- For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).

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