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Title 37 - Mental Health (Chs. 1 — 13)
Chapter 2 - Administration of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, Addictive Diseases, and Other Disability Services (Arts. 1 — 3)
Article 1 - General Provisions (§§ 37-2-1 — 37-2-11.2)
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Editor’s notes.Ga. L. 1992, p. 1357, designated Code Sections 37-2-1 through 37-2-12 as Article 1 of this chapter.
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- § 37-2-1. Purpose
- § 37-2-2. [Effective July 1, 2026] Definitions
- § 37-2-3. Boundaries of mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases regions; community service board areas
- § 37-2-4. [Effective July 1, 2026] 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. [Effective July 1, 2026] Regional advisory councils; membership; bylaws; meetings; expenses
- § 37-2-5.1. Allocation of funds
- § 37-2-5.2. Local offices
- § 37-2-6. [Effective July 1, 2026] Community mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases service boards; membership; county participation; bylaws; reprisals prohibited
- § 37-2-6.1. [Effective July 1, 2026] Roles and duties of community service board; executive director
- § 37-2-6.2. Community service board employee rights; duties; benefits
- § 37-2-6.3. Litigation relating to community service board; debts and other obligations
- § 37-2-6.4. [Effective July 1, 2026] Reconstitution or conversion of community service board; request to form a new community service board
- § 37-2-6.5. [Effective July 1, 2026] Cessation of community service board operations; notice; continuation of operations by successor
- § 37-2-7. [Reserved] Formulation and publication of state plan for disability services
- § 37-2-8. [Reserved] Unification of state and area service programs
- § 37-2-9. Coordination of disability services with 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. Emergency powers to establish and administer programs
- § 37-2-11. [Effective July 1, 2026] Allocation of available funds; minimum standards; accounting; discrimination prohibited
- § 37-2-11.1. [Effective July 1, 2026] Actions against community service board
- § 37-2-11.2. Access to records of programs receiving public funds; confidentiality
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