O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 37-4-81 (2019)

Liability for expenses for transporting, examining, and caring for clients

✓ 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) The responsibility for paying the expenses for transporting, examining, and caring for clients, which expenses are not provided for under Chapter 9 of this title, relating to the payment of costs of care of persons admitted to state institutions under the department, shall be in the following order:

(1) The client or his estate;

(2) Persons legally obligated or legally responsible for the support of the client;

(3) The county of the client’s legal residence;

(4) The department, when the General Assembly appropriates funds for such purpose.

(b) The department is authorized to issue rules and regulations governing the provisions of this Code section as it relates to the department.

History

Code 1933, § 88-2508, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-2509.7, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1826, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Payment of costs of hospital care for the indigent, § 31-8-1 et seq. Medical assistance generally, § 49-4-140 et seq.