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O.C.G.A. § 31-14-14 — Immunity from liability | Georgia Code
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TITLE 31 HEALTH

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

ARTICLE 7 EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE CENTERS

31-14-14. Immunity from liability.

Any physician, peace officer, attorney, or health official, or any hospital or facility official, agent, or other person employed by a private hospital or facility or at a hospital or facility operated by the state, by a political subdivision of the state, by a county board of health, or by a hospital authority created pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 31, who acts in good faith in compliance with the admission and discharge provisions of this chapter shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for his or her actions in connection with the admission of a patient to or the discharge of a patient from a hospital or facility approved by the department for the care of tubercular patients.

(Code 1981, §31-14-14, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 1231, § 3; Ga. L. 2005, p. 1513, § 1/SB 56.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Turpen v. Rabun County Bd. of Comm'rs, 245 Ga. App. 190, 537 S.E.2d 435 (2000).

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