O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 31-14-11 (2019)
Unauthorized leave of committed person from hospital or facility
✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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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.
History
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.