O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-17-2 (2019)

Report of diagnosis or treatment to health authorities

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

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Any physician or other person who makes a diagnosis of or treats a case of venereal disease and any superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary, or charitable or penal institution in which there is discovered a case of venereal disease shall make report of such case to the health authorities in such form and manner as the Department of Public Health shall direct.

History

Ga. L. 1918, p. 275, § 2; Code 1933, § 88-502; Code 1933, § 88-1602, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 147 (2011).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, § 25. C.J.S. - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 28 et seq. ALR. - Constitutionality, construction,

and application of statutes, ordinances, and regulations concerning the prevention and cure of venereal diseases, 127 A.L.R. 421.