O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-39-2 (2019)

Creation of board of examiners; immunity

✓ 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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There is created a State Board of Examiners of Psychologists, to consist of six members who shall be appointed by the Governor under conditions set forth in this article. No member of the board shall be liable to civil action for any act performed in good faith in the performance of that member’s duties as prescribed by law.

History

Ga. L. 1951, p. 408, § 2; Ga. L. 1979, p. 516, § 2; Ga. L. 1980, p. 1337, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 473, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 101, § 4/HB 26.

The 2019 amendment, effective April 23, 2019, substituted ‘‘this article’’ for ‘‘this chapter’’ at the end of the first sentence.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Members appointed to board must be licensed. 1970 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 70-150. General Assembly conferred some discretion upon the board in the examination of applicants; the board may examine applicants according to methods

deemed most practical and expeditious by the board, and the board is unrestricted in the subject field in which the applicant may be tested on qualifications for licensure as an applied psychologist. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-26.