O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 37-5-7 (2019)

Duty of department to provide consulting and financial assistance to county boards of health; failure of county boards of health to provide community services

✓ 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 Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities shall provide assistance to county boards of health in developing a full range of community services for the developmentally disabled through consultation and provision of standards. The department shall assist county boards of health in obtaining federal funds where such resources are available and shall finance 100 percent of all operating costs not borne by federal funds. (b) Should a county board of health fail to take the necessary action to provide approved community services for developmentally disabled individuals, the department shall be empowered to establish and operate such services in lieu of operation by such county board of health.

History

Ga. L. 1972, p. 700, § 7; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, §§ 3-2, 3-5/HB 228.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Involvement of Department. - Department of Human Resources may become involved if a county board of health

fails to provide necessary services to mentally retarded individuals. 1973 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 73-164.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1984–1984 · leading case: MacOn Ass'n for Retarded Citizens v. MacOn-bibb Cnty. Plan. & Zoning Comm'n, 314 S.E.2d 218 (Ga. 1984).
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MacOn Ass'n for Retarded Citizens v. MacOn-bibb Cnty. Plan. & Zoning Comm'n, 314 S.E.2d 218 (Ga. 1984). · cites it 4× “OCGA § 37-5-7 (b) (Code Ann. § 99-3307). One approved method of providing such services is for DHR to contract with private associations like MARC.”
— 37-5-7(b) — 1 case
MacOn Ass'n for Retarded Citizens v. MacOn-bibb Cnty. Plan. & Zoning Comm'n, 314 S.E.2d 218 (Ga. 1984). “OCGA § 37-5-7 (b) (Code Ann. § 99-3307). One approved method of providing such services is for DHR to contract with private associations like MARC.”
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