TITLE 31 HEALTH

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

ARTICLE 7 EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE CENTERS

31-14-12. Applicability of commitment provisions to persons who obey rules and regulations of department.

No person having active tuberculosis who, in his or her home or other place, obeys the rules and regulations of the department and county boards of health for the control of active tuberculosis or who voluntarily accepts care in a hospital or facility operated for the care of tuberculosis, in his or her home, or in another place and who obeys the rules and regulations of the department and completes the prescribed course of therapy for the control of active tuberculosis shall be committed as prescribed in this chapter.

(Ga. L. 1953, Nov.-Dec. Sess., p. 348, § 13; Code 1933, § 88-713, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 620, § 6; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1513, § 1/SB 56.)