2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 7 - Regulation and Construction of Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities (Arts. 1 — 16)
Article 5 - Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authorities (§§ 31-7-110 — 31-7-120)

Annotations

Opinion Notes

The Hospital Authorities Law, O. C. G. A. § 31-7-70 et seq., and the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authorities Act, O. C. G. A. § 31-7-110 et seq., should not be viewed as mutually exclusive and may be harmonized. 1984 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U84-9.

While both the Hospital Authorities Law, O. C. G. A. § 31-7-70 et seq., and the Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authorities Act, O. C. G. A. § 31-7-110 et seq., allow either authority to acquire or build a facility, a Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Authority, as opposed to a Hospital Authority, may not operate a facility. 1984 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U84-9.

Research References & Practice Aids

Disabled adults, § 30-5-1 et seq.

Long term care facility administrators, § 43-27-1 et seq.

Exemptions from law regarding public officials’ conflicts of interest relating to Medicaid and Medicare payments, § 45-10-25.

Services for the aging, § 49-6-1 et seq.

Nursing Homes, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Community Health, Healthcare Facility Regulation, Rule 111-8-56-.01 et seq.

For article, “Tax-exempt Financing of Housing for the Elderly in Georgia,” see 17 Ga. St. B. J. 41 (1980).

For note, procedural requirements for public approval of tax-exempt industrial development bonds under TEFRA, see 19 Ga. St. B. J. 84 (1982).

O. C. G. A. Title 31

O. C. G. A. Title 31, Ch. 7