2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 6 - State Health Planning and Development (Arts. 1 — 4)
Annotations
Notes
Editor’s notes.Ga. L. 1983, p. 1566, § 1, effective July 1, 1983, repealed the Code sections formerly codified at this chapter, also pertaining to state health planning and development, and enacted the current chapter. The former chapter consisted of Code Sections 31-6-1, 31-6-2, 31-6-20 through 31-6-28, and 31-6-40 through 31-6-51 and was based on Ga. L. 1978, p. 941, § 4; Ga. L. 1979, p. 1109, §§ 1-3; and Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 31.
JUDICIAL DECISIONS
Enforcement of chapter. —Prior to the 1983 reenactment, O. C. G. A. T. 31, Ch. 6, authorized a health planning agency to bring an action to enforce provisions of that chapter, but did not give standing to a competitor of a health service provider. Executive Comm. v. Metro Ambulance Servs., Inc., 250 Ga. 61, 296 S. E.2d 547, 1982 Ga. LEXIS 997 (1982).
Research References & Practice Aids
Cross references.Offering continuing care when resident purchases resident owned living unit, § 33-45-7.1.
Administration of mental health and developmental disabilities services generally, § 37-2-1 et seq.
Administrative rules and regulations.Administration, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Community Health, Health Planning, Rule 111-2-1-.01 et seq.
Certificate of Need, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Community Health, Health Planning, Rule 111-2-2-.01 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Regulation of practice of acupuncture, 17 A. L. R.4th 964.
Hierarchy Notes:O. C. G. A. Title 31