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2018 Georgia Code 37-3-40 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)

O.C.G.A. 37-3-40 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 37-3-40

TITLE 37 MENTAL HEALTH

Section 3. Examination, Treatment, etc., for Mental Illness, 37-3-1 through 37-3-168.

ARTICLE 3 EXAMINATION, HOSPITALIZATION, AND TREATMENT OF INVOLUNTARY PATIENTS

37-3-40. Designation by department of emergency receiving facilities.

Any state owned and state operated facility may be designated by the department as an emergency receiving facility. The department shall maintain an emergency receiving facility at each Georgia regional hospital which shall accept, under Code Sections 37-3-41 through 37-3-44, patients found in any county in the service region of the hospital. Any other facility within the State of Georgia may be so designated by the department at the request of or with the consent of the governing officers of the facility.

(Code 1933, § 88-504.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1789, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Heath v. Peachtree Parkwood Hosp., 200 Ga. App. 118, 407 S.E.2d 406 (1991).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Medical admissions county is a county in which the procedure is governed by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505. 1972 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U72-29.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Hospital's liability as to diagnosis and care of patients brought to emergency ward, 72 A.L.R.2d 396.

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