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

O.C.G.A. § 37-7-63 (2019)

Admission of persons to evaluating facilities for evaluation and emergency treatment

✓ 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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Any person who is brought to an evaluating facility under Code Section 37-7-43 or under a court order as provided in Code Section 37-7-62 shall be received for evaluation and such treatment as is indicated by good medical practice.

History

Code 1933, § 88-404.14, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 273, § 1; Code

1933, § 88-405.4, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 37.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Kendrick v. Metropolitan Psychiatric Ctr., Inc., 158 Ga. App. 839, 282 S.E.2d 361 (1981). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Drugs and Controlled Substances, § 87 et seq.