O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-14-14 (2019)

Immunity from liability

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

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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.

History

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

Annotations

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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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2000–2000 · leading case: Turpen v. Rabun Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 537 S.E.2d 435 (Ga. Ct. App. 2000).

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Turpen v. Rabun Cnty. Bd. of Commissioners, 537 S.E.2d 435 (Ga. Ct. App. 2000). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 31-14-14 provides certain immunity for certain officials who are employed in hospitals including, among others, those operated by the state, a political subdivision of the state or a hospital authority.”

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