Georgia Code
Chapter 5 - Protection of Disabled Adults and Elder Persons
§ 30-5-4. Reporting of Need for Protective Services; Manner and Contents of Report; Immunity From Civil or Criminal Liability; Privileged Communications

History. Ga. L. 1981, p. 1320, § 4; Ga. L. 1984, p. 785, § 1; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 30; Ga. L. 1996, p. 1608, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 700, § 2; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1085, § 6; Ga. L. 2013, p. 524, § 1-6/HB 78; Ga. L. 2015, p. 598, § 1-7/HB 72; Ga. L. 2018, p. 602, § 2/HB 635.
The 2018 amendment, effective July 1, 2018, substituted “protection” for “protective” at the beginning of the last sentence of subparagraph (b)(1)(A); substituted “subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1)” for “subparagraph (A)(1)” in the middle of the first sentence of paragraph (b)(2); and, in subsection (c), in the middle of the first sentence, deleted “or” following “protective services,” and inserted “, or who participates on an Adult Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation Multidisciplinary Team”.
Cross references.
Reporting of abuse or exploitation of residents of long-term care facilities, § 31-8-80 et seq.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1997, a comma was deleted following “investigation” in the last sentence of subsection (c).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2000, p. 1085, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Georgia Protection of Elder Persons Act of 2000’.”
Law reviews.
For note on 2000 amendment of this Code section, see 17 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 93 (2000).
For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 63 (2015).

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