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2018 Georgia Code 31-9-4 | Car Wreck Lawyer

TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 9. Consent for Surgical or Medical Treatment, 31-9-1 through 31-9-7.

ARTICLE 10 DRUG REPOSITORY PROGRAM

31-9-4. Applicability of chapter to care and treatment of mentally ill.

This chapter shall be applicable to the care and treatment of patients in facilities for the mentally ill as defined in paragraph (7) of Code Section 37-3-1.

(Code 1933, § 88-2903, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 438, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 704, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Mental competency of patient to consent to surgical operation or medical treatment, 25 A.L.R.3d 1439.

Right of state prison authorities to administer neuroleptic or antipsychotic drugs to prisoner without his or her consent - state cases, 75 A.L.R.4th 1124.

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