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2018 Georgia Code 31-20-1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 20. Performance of Sterilization Procedures, 31-20-1 through 31-20-6.

ARTICLE 7 EMERGENCY CARDIAC CARE CENTERS

31-20-1. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the term:

  1. "Accredited hospital" means a hospital licensed by the Department of Community Health and accredited by a nationally recognized health care accreditation body.
  2. "Physician" means a person duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery without restriction in Georgia pursuant to Chapter 34 of Title 43.
  3. "Sterilization procedure" means any procedure which is designed or intended to prevent conception and which is not designed to unsex the patient by removing the ovaries or testicles.

(Ga. L. 1966, p. 453, § 3; Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 4; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 2-30/SB 433; Ga. L. 2012, p. 337, § 7/SB 361.)

The 2012 amendment, effective July 1, 2012, substituted "a nationally recognized health care accreditation body" for "the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals" in paragraph (1).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Procedure not designed to prevent conception not within ambit of law.

- If surgical procedure involved was not designed or intended to prevent conception, it was not a surgical procedure within regulatory ambit of Ga. L. 1966, p. 453. Winfrey v. Citizens & S. Nat'l Bank, 149 Ga. App. 488, 254 S.E.2d 725 (1979).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 61 Am. Jur. 2d, Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Healers, § 262.

C.J.S.

- 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 76.

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