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O.C.G.A. § 37-2-4.1 (2019)

Local mental health, developmental disabilities, and

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addictive diseases offices; regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disease advisory councils.

(a) The department may create local mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases offices. The number of these offices may be modified from time to time as deemed necessary by the department.

(b) The department shall create a separate regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases advisory council for each region of the department as established under Code Section

Annotations

The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted "department may create local" for "department shall create regional" in the first sentence of subsection (a); and substituted the present provisions of subsection (b) for the former provisions, which read: "The department shall create a separate regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases planning board for each regional office established under subsection (a) of this Code section. Each board shall provide and facilitate coordinated and comprehensive planning for its region in conformity with minimum standards and procedures established by the department. Each board shall be designated with such identifying words before the term 'regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases planning board' as that regional planning board may, from time to time, choose and designate by official action."

Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 18.1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "Nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal any provision of Chapter 5 of Title 37 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, the 'Community Services Act for the Mentally Retarded.' "

Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, § 19, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1994; provided, however, that provisions relating to the establishment of regional and community service board boundaries and the appointments of regional boards and community service boards shall become effective on July 1, 1993, or upon whatever date is stipulated in the Act and provided, further, that the provisions authorizing a county board of health to agree to serve as the lead county board of health for only that county shall become effective upon the approval of this Act by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval." The Act was approved by the Governor on April 27, 1993.

Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, which amends this Code section, provides, in § 19.1, not codified by the General Assembly, that the amendment is repealed on June 30, 1999; however, Ga. L. 1998, p. 870, § 1, struck § 19.1 of Ga. L. 1993, p. 1445, which would have repealed the 1993 amendment to this Code section.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2001–2001 · leading case: Youngblood v. Gwinnett Rockdale Newton Cmty. Serv. Bd., 545 S.E.2d 875 (Ga. 2001).
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Youngblood v. Gwinnett Rockdale Newton Cmty. Serv. Bd., 545 S.E.2d 875 (Ga. 2001). · cites it 4× “Specifically, community service boards are subject to the rules and regulations of the regional mental health planning units which are part of the State Department of Human Resources, OCGA §§ 37-2-4.1 (a), 37-2-6 (h), 37-2-6.”
37-2-4.1(a): 1 case
Youngblood v. Gwinnett Rockdale Newton Cmty. Serv. Bd., 545 S.E.2d 875 (Ga. 2001). “Specifically, community service boards are subject to the rules and regulations of the regional mental health planning units which are part of the State Department of Human Resources, OCGA §§ 37-2-4.1 (a), 37-2-6 (h), 37-2-6.”
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