Georgia Code
Chapter 20 - Performance of Sterilization Procedures
§ 31-20-3. Sterilization of Mentally Incompetent Persons

History. Ga. L. 1970, p. 683, § 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 869, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 1134, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, § 10; Ga. L. 1992, p. 6, § 31; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 3-7/HB 228; Ga. L. 2012, p. 337, § 8/SB 361.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2009, “developmental disabilities” was substituted for “a developmental disability” in the first sentence of paragraph (c)(2).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1986, p. 982, § 25, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that that Act would apply to all cases filed on or after July 1, 1986.

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