Georgia Code
Article 3 - Certificate of Need Program
§ 31-6-43. Acceptance or Rejection of Application for Certificate

Following joinder of the first application with subsequent applications, none of the subsequent applications so joined may be considered as a first application for the purposes of future joinder. The department shall notify the applicant to whose application a joinder is ordered and all other applicants previously joined to such application of the fact of each joinder pursuant to this subsection. In the event one or more applications have been joined pursuant to this subsection, the time limits for department action for all of the applicants shall run from the latest date that any one of the joined applications was declared complete for review. In the event of the consideration of one or more applications joined pursuant to this subsection, the department may award no certificate of need or one or more certificates of need to the application or applications, if any, which are consistent with the considerations contained in Code Section 31-6-42, the department’s applicable rules, and the award of which will best satisfy the purposes of this chapter.
History. Code 1981, § 31-6-43 , enacted by Ga. L. 1983, p. 1566, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 22, § 31; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1317, §§ 6.15, 6.16; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 22; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 1-1/SB 433; Ga. L. 2008, p. 181, § 15/HB 1216; Ga. L. 2012, p. 775, § 31/HB 942; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 1-8/HB 186.
The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, designated the existing provisions of subsection (d) as paragraph (d)(1); added paragraph (d)(2); and, in subsection (h), substituted “permitted to oppose an application pursuant to paragraph (2) of subsection (d) of this Code section” for “opposed to an application” in the third sentence and substituted “any such” for “an” near the beginning of the fourth sentence.
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2008, subsection (g), as enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 1-1, was redesignated as subsection (k).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 3-1/SB 433, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section shall only apply to applications submitted on or after July 1, 2008.

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