Any state owned or state operated facility may be designated by the department as an evaluating facility. The department shall maintain an evaluating facility at each Georgia regional hospital which shall accept, under Code Sections 37-3-61 through 37-3-65, patients found in any county in the service region of the hospital designated by the department. Any other facility within the State of Georgia may be so designated by the department at the request of or with the consent of the governing officers of the facility.
History. Code 1933, § 88-505.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 505, § 1; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1789, § 1.
Structure Georgia Code
Chapter 3 - Examination, Treatment, etc., for Mental Illness
Article 3 - Examination, Hospitalization, and Treatment of Involuntary Patients
§ 37-3-60. Designation of Evaluating Facilities
§ 37-3-61. Initiation of Proceedings for Court Ordered Evaluation
§ 37-3-63. Admission of Persons to Evaluating Facilities for Evaluation and Emergency Treatment
§ 37-3-65. Request for Transfer to Another Evaluating Facility; Recipients of Notice of Transfer