TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 14. Hospitalization for Tuberculosis, 31-14-1 through 31-14-14.

ARTICLE 7 EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE CENTERS

31-14-11. Unauthorized leave of committed person from hospital or facility.

Any person who leaves a hospital or facility approved by the department for the treatment of tuberculosis to which he or she has been committed by court order, without having been discharged by the medical staff of the tuberculosis inpatient unit or the community tuberculosis control unit, shall be taken into custody and returned thereto by the sheriff of any county where such person may be found, upon affidavit being filed with the sheriff by the designated responsible official of the hospital or facility to which such person has been committed.

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 348, § 14; Code 1933, § 88-714, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 620, § 5; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1513, § 1/SB 56.)