O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 37-7-141 (2019)

Patients’ right to legal counsel

✓ 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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It shall be the responsibility of the department to see that every patient is given the opportunity to secure legal counsel at his own expense to represent him in connection with private, personal, domestic, business, civil, criminal, and all other legal matters in which he may be involved during hospitalization.

History

Code 1933, § 88-402.15, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1.

Annotations

Cross references. - Right to legal

counsel generally, U.S. Const., amend. 6 and Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. XIV.

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Drugs and Controlled Substances, §§ 89, 93, 94. ALR. - Accused’s right to represent

himself in state criminal proceedings - modern state cases, 98 A.L.R.3d 13.