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O.C.G.A. § 31-18-2 Definitions
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As used in this chapter, the term: (1) ‘‘Brain injury’’ means a traumatic injury to the brain (cranio-cerebral head trauma), not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but arising from blunt or penetrating trauma or from acceleration-deceleration forces, that is associated with …
O.C.G.A. § 31-18-3 Reporting procedures
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Every public and private health and social agency, every hospital or facility that has a valid permit or provisional permit issued by the Department of Community Health under Chapter 7 of this title, and every physician licensed to practice medicine in this state, if such physici…
O.C.G.A. § 31-18-4 Duties of commission
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(a) The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission, which is administratively assigned to the Department of Public Health, shall establish procedures whereby a person with a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury for whom a report is made pursuant to this chapter shall be infor…
O.C.G.A. § 31-19-1 Responsibility for control
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Each county board of health shall have primary responsibility for the control of rabies within its jurisdiction. Such boards, in addition to their other powers, are empowered and required to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the prevention and control of such disease…