O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-33-2 (2019)

Declaration of purpose

✓ 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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This article is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding the public health, safety, and welfare by providing for state administrative control, supervision, and regulation of the practice of physical therapy. The practice of physical therapy is declared to be affected with the public interest; and this article shall be liberally construed so as to accomplish the purpose stated in this Code section.

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2019, ‘‘This article’’ was substituted for ‘‘This chapter’’ at the beginning of the first sentence to effectuate the intent of Ga. L. 2019, p. 126, § 4/HB 39.

History

Ga. L. 1972, p. 388, § 2; Ga. L. 1997, p. 715, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 126, § 4/HB 39. The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, purported to substitute ‘‘this article’’ for ‘‘this chapter’’ at the beginning of the first sentence, and substituted ‘‘this article’’ for ‘‘this chapter’’ in the second sentence.