Georgia Code
Article 2 - Capacity of Parties
§ 13-3-24. Insane, Mentally Ill, Intellectually Disabled, or Mentally Incompetent Persons

History. Orig. Code 1863, §§ 2691, 2697; Code 1868, §§ 2687, 2693; Code 1873, §§ 2729, 2735; Code 1882, §§ 2729, 2735; Civil Code 1895, §§ 3647, 3652; Civil Code 1910, §§ 4232, 4237; Code 1933, § 20-206; Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 4-17/HB 252.
The 2015 amendment, effective July 1, 2015, substituted “an intellectually disabled,” for “a mentally retarded” and “intellectually disabled” for “mentally retarded” in subsections (a) and (b).
History of Code section.
The language of this Code section is derived in part from the decision in Norman v. Georgia Loan & Trust Co., 92 Ga. 295 , 18 S.E. 27 (1893), and Fields v. Union Cent. Life Ins. Co., 170 Ga. 239 , 152 S.E. 237 (1930).
Cross references.
Rights of mental patients generally, § 37-3-140 et seq.
Rights and privileges of intellectually or developmentally delayed persons undergoing habilitation generally, § 37-4-100 et seq.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2015, a comma was deleted following “intellectually disabled” in subsections (a) and (b).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2015, p. 385, § 1-1/HB 252, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘J. Calvin Hill, Jr., Act.’ ”
Law reviews.
For comment on Georgia Power Co. v. Roper, 73 Ga. App. 826 , 38 S.E.2d 91 (1946), see 9 Ga. B.J. 89 (1946).

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