O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-5-89 (2019)

Donation of blood by persons over 17 years of age

✓ 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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Any person who is a resident of this state and who is 17 years of age or over may donate his blood to any person, firm, association, organization, public or private agency, or corporation without the consent of his parent or parents or guardian. Any person who is not a resident of this state and who is 17 years of age or over may donate his blood to any person, firm, association, organization, public or private agency, or corporation in this state without the consent of his parent or parents or guardian when the laws of the state wherein such person resides permit the donation of blood at such age.

History

(Ga. L. 1970, p. 150, § 1; Ga. L. 1975, p. 1071, § 1.)

Annotations

Cross references. - Consent to surgical or medical treatment generally, Ch. 9, T. 31. Labeling of blood withdrawn from person

for transfusion purposes or for purposes of industrial use, Ch. 24, T. 31.

Part 2 Gifts Causa Mortis RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - Gift of savings deposit by delivery of passbook, 40 ALR 1249; 84 ALR 558. Birth of child as affecting gift causa mortis, 49 ALR 1445.

Gift or grant to one upon marriage, if married, payable at marriage, or the like, as vested or contingent, 30 ALR2d 127.