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

O.C.G.A. § 43-26-54 (2019)

Court order; citation for civil contempt

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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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The board may seek an order from a court of competent jurisdiction for a report from a nurse as required by Code Section 43-26-51 if one is not forthcoming voluntarily. The board may seek a citation for civil contempt if a court order for a report is not obeyed by such nurse.

History

Code 1981, § 43-26-54, enacted by Ga.

L. 2013, p. 830, § 4/HB 315; Ga. L. 2014, p. 866, § 43/SB 340.

Annotations

The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted "board" for "applicable board" twice in this Code section.