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

O.C.G.A. § 43-27-1 (2019)

Definitions

✓ 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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As used in this chapter, the term:

(1) “Administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of a long-term care facility.

(2) “Assisted living community” means a facility licensed pursuant to Code Section 31-7-12.2.

(3) “Assisted living community administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of an assisted living community.

(4) “Board” means the State Board of Long-Term Care Facility Administrators.

(5) “Long-term care facility” means a personal care home, an assisted living community, or a nursing home.

(6) “Nursing home” has the same meaning as prescribed by the Department of Community Health in the rules and regulations for nursing homes.

(7) “Nursing home administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises or is in charge of a nursing home.

(8) “Personal care home” means a facility licensed pursuant to Code Section 31-7-12 which has 25 or more beds.

(9) “Personal care home administrator” means a person who operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of a personal care home.

History

Ga. L. 1968, p. 1143, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 573, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 846, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2020, p. 95, § 9/HB 987. The 2020 amendment, effective June 30, 2020, added paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (5), (8), and (9); redesignated former para-

graphs (1), (2), and (3) as present paragraphs (4), (6), and (7), respectively; substituted “Long Term Care Facility Administrators” for “Nursing Home Administrators” in paragraph (4); and deleted “or” following “manages,” in paragraph (7).

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1986, "this" was substituted for "the" in the introductory language.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Culverhouse v. Atlanta Ass'n for Convalescent Aged Persons, 127 Ga. App. 574, 194 S.E.2d 299 (1972).