O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 31-8-151 (2019)

Definitions

✓ 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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As used in this article, the term:

(1) ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 2 of this title.

(2) ‘‘Medically indigent’’ means a person who meets the state-wide standards of indigency adopted by the department for the purposes of this article.

(3) ‘‘Trust fund’’ means the Indigent Care Trust Fund created by Code Section 31-8-152.

History

Code 1981, § 31-8-151, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L.

1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 9; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-8/HB 228.