2025 Code of Georgia
Title 31 - Health (Chs. 1 — 54)
Chapter 8 - Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients (Arts. 1 — 10)
Article 2A - Hospital Care for Pregnant Women (§§ 31-8-40 — 31-8-46)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

An attack on O. C. G. A. Art. 2A, Ch. 8, T. 31, as special legislation fails since the statute operates statewide and is applicable to all hospitals authorized to operate as provided in the statute. Terrell County v. Albany/Dougherty Hosp. Auth., 256 Ga. 627, 352 S. E.2d 378, 1987 Ga. LEXIS 576 (1987).

When a county argued that O. C. G. A. Art. 2A, Ch. 8, T. 31 was violative of Ga. Const. 1983, Art. IX, Sec. II, Para. III (b)(1), which prohibits a county from exercising certain enumerated powers inside the boundaries of any municipality or other county except by contract with the entity affected, since the county had no contract with the political subdivision within which a hospital seeking reimbursement under O. C. G. A. § 31-8-43(c) was located, it could not constitutionally pay the claims of the hospital, it was held that the words “unless otherwise provided by law,” prefacing the constitutional prohibition apply to a general law such as O. C. G. A. § 31-8-43. Terrell County v. Albany/Dougherty Hosp. Auth., 256 Ga. 627, 352 S. E.2d 378, 1987 Ga. LEXIS 576 (1987).

Research References & Practice Aids

Newborn Baby and Mother Protection Act, § 33-24-58 et seq.

Emergency Medical Services to Pregnant Women, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Rules of Department of Human Services, Family and Children Services, Rule 290-2-26-.01 et seq.

For article, “State of Emergency: Why Georgia’s Standard of Care in Emergency Rooms is Harmful to Your Health,” see 45 Ga. L. Rev. 275 (2010).

O. C. G. A. Title 31

O. C. G. A. Title 31, Ch. 8