The order shall authorize the petitioner or the petitioner’s designee to do all things necessary to accomplish the discharge from a hospital, institution, medical center, or other healthcare institution and the transfer to or admission to the recommended facility or placement.
History. Code 1981, § 31-36A-7 , enacted by Ga. L. 1999, p. 485, § 5; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-6/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 227, § 22/SB 178; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-5/HB 214; Ga. L. 2020, p. 55, § 7/SB 372.
The 2020 amendment, effective July 1, 2020, substituted “healthcare” for “health care” throughout this Code section; deleted former subsection (e), which read: “At the same time as issuing the order, the court shall provide a copy of said order to the commissioner of public health”; and redesignated former subsections (f) through (i) as present subsections (e) through (h), respectively.
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For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 147 (2011).