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2006 Georgia Code - 31-2-2
31-2-2. The department is designated and empowered as
the agency of this state to apply for, receive, and administer
grants and donations for health purposes from the federal
government and from any of its departments, agencies, and
instrumentalities; from appropriations of the state; and from any
other sources in conformity with law. The department shall have the
authority to prescribe the purposes for which such funds may be
used in order to: (1)
Provide, extend, and improve maternal and child health
services; (2) Locate children
already crippled or suffering from conditions leading to crippling
and provide for such children medical, surgical, corrective, and
other services and to provide for facilities for diagnosis,
hospitalization, and aftercare; (3) Advance the control of cancer and of
venereal, tubercular, and other diseases; (4) Forestall and correct conditions that, if
left to run their course, could be injurious to health;
(5) Conduct programs which lie
within the scope and the power of the department relating to
industrial hygiene, control of ionizing radiation, occupational
health, water quality, water pollution control, and planning and
development of water resources; (6) Administer grants-in-aid to assist in the
construction of publicly owned and operated general and special
medical facilities; (7)
Conduct programs: (A)
Relating to chronic illness; (B) Relating to the dental health of the people
of this state which are appropriate to the purpose of the
department; and (C) Relating
to the mental and physical health of the people of this state which
are appropriate to the purpose of the department; and
(8) Develop the health aspects of
civil defense. When a plan is
required to be approved by any department, agency, or
instrumentality of the federal government as condition precedent to
the making of grants for health purposes, the department, as agent
of this state, is directed to formulate, submit, and secure
approval of that plan and thereafter, upon its approval and the
receipt of funds payable thereunder, to carry the plan into effect
in accordance with its terms, applying thereto the funds so
received as well as other applicable amounts from whatever
source.
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