O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A. § 37-4-103 (2019)
Clients’ rights in regard to personal effects; liability of facility’s employees and staff members for loss of or damage to clients’ personal effects
✓ 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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A client’s rights to his personal effects shall be respected. The superintendent or regional state hospital administrator may take temporary custody of such effects when required for medical reasons. The facility shall make reasonable efforts to assure the safety of the client’s belongings, but no employee or staff member shall be responsible for loss of or damage to such property where reasonable safety precautions have been taken.
History
Code 1933, § 88-2503.8, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1826, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1324, § 1-19.