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2016 Georgia Code
Title 37 - Mental Health
Chapter 2 - Administration of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Addictive Diseases, and Other Disability Services
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 37-2-1. Declaration of purpose
- § 37-2-2. Definitions
- § 37-2-2.1. Creation of Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Addictive Diseases
- § 37-2-3. Designation of boundaries for mental health, development disabilities, and addictive diseases regions; community service board areas
- § 37-2-4. Behavioral Health Coordinating Council; membership; meetings; obligations
- § 37-2-4.1. Local mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases offices; regional mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disease advisory councils
- § 37-2-5. Regional advisory councils -- Establishing policy and direction for disability services; membership; bylaws; meetings; expenses
- § 37-2-5.1. Allocation of funds
- § 37-2-5.2. Local offices -- Duties, functions, and powers
- § 37-2-6. Community mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases service boards -- Community service board creation; membership; participation of counties; transfer of powers and duties; alternate method of establishment; bylaws; reprisals prohibited
- § 37-2-6.1. Community service boards -- Executive director, staff, budget, facilities; powers and duties; exemption from state and local taxation
- § 37-2-6.2. Employees whose jobs include duties or functions which became duties or functions of a community service board on July 1, 1994; rights, duties, and benefits of employees
- § 37-2-6.3. Public body; lawsuits; debts, obligations, and liabilities
- § 37-2-6.4. Reconstituting or converting of organizational structure; formation of new community service board
- § 37-2-6.5. Cessation of operations by community service board; notification; continuation of operations by successor board, county board of health, or outside manager
- § 37-2-7. Formulation and publication of state plan for disability services
- § 37-2-8. Unification of state and area service programs
- § 37-2-9. Coordination of disability services with related activities of other agencies and organizations
- § 37-2-9.1. Compliance by regional planning boards and community service boards with laws as to open meetings and inspection of records; advisory boards
- § 37-2-10. Commissioner's emergency powers upon failure of community service board to establish and administer programs
- § 37-2-11. Allocation of available funds for services; recipients to meet minimum standards; accounting for fees generated by providers; discrimination in providing services prohibited
- § 37-2-11.1. Venue in actions against community service board; representation by Attorney General; immunity; use of legal counsel; authority for indemnification, defense, and insurance
- § 37-2-11.2. Access by the department, Department of Human Services, Department of Public Health, Department of Community Health, or regional office to records of any program receiving public funds; confidentiality
- § 37-2-12. Construction of chapter to avoid conflict with federal laws
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