O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-3-168 (2019)

Construction with other provisions; inclusion

✓ 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) This article shall not limit rights, privileges, or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners by laws other than this article. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this Code section, this article shall not affect requirements for the use of health practitioners pursuant to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact.

(b) The Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, pursuant to the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, may incorporate into the emergency forces of this state volunteer health

MILITARY, EMERG. & VET. AFFAIRS practitioners who are not officers or employees of this state, a political subdivision of this state, or a municipality or other local government within this state.

History

Code 1981, § 38-3-168, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 296, § 1/SB 230.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2016, ‘‘and

Homeland Security’’ was inserted after ‘‘Georgia Emergency Management’’ in subsection (b).