(a.1) The board shall issue regulations to implement the provisions of Code Section 40-5-63.1 relative to clinical evaluations and substance abuse treatment programs and shall prescribe such application fees for providers desiring authorization to provide clinical evaluations or substance abuse treatment programs as are reasonably necessary to cover the cost of considering such applications. Such regulations shall provide for approval of providers and such approval shall be valid continuously unless and until revoked in accordance with such regulations.
Notwithstanding the powers granted to the department under this Code section, the requirements of this Code section as to determination of treatment and care of patients and the investigation of complaints shall not apply to patients hospitalized in an institution operated by or under the control of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or any other federal agency.
History. Code 1933, § 88-406.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1971, p. 273, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-407.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 45, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 977, § 3; Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 6.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1997, p. 760, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act.’ ”
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For article commenting on the 1997 amendment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 203 (1997).