2025 Code of Georgia
Title 49 - Social Services (Chs. 1 — 10)
Chapter 7 - Family-Planning Services (§§ 49-7-1 — 49-7-9)
§ 49-7-2. Definitions
- As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) “Agencies” means the department, county boards of health, health districts, county departments of family and children services, and district departments of family and children services.
(2) “Family-planning services” means counseling and interviews with trained personnel regarding birth control, infertility, and family-planning methods and procedures; distribution of literature relating to birth control, infertility, and family planning; referral to licensed physicians or local health departments for consultation, examination, tests, medical treatment, and prescriptions for the purposes of birth control, infertility, and family planning; and, to the extent prescribed, the distribution of rhythm charts, drugs, medical preparations, contraceptive devices, and similar products used for birth control and family planning.
History
Ga. L. 1966, p. 228, § 2.
Annotations
Research References & Practice Aids
Administrative rules and regulations.Serologic test for pregnant women, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Department of Public Health, Health Promotion, § 511-5-4-.01 et seq.
RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR.Validity of regulations as to contraceptives or the dissemination of birth control information, 96 A.L.R.2d 955.
Hierarchy Notes:O.C.G.A. Title 49
O.C.G.A. Title 49, Ch. 7
