Georgia Code
Part 1 - Emergency Receiving Facilities for Examination of Persons Apprehended Pursuant to Physician’s Certificate or Court Order
§ 37-7-42. Emergency Admission of Persons Arrested for Penal Offenses; Report by Officer; Entry of Report Into Clinical Record

History. Code 1933, § 88-404.3, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 1856, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 996, § 2; Ga. L. 1987, p. 3, § 37; Ga. L. 2022, p. 26, § 3-6/HB 1013.
The 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, designated the existing provisions of subsection (a) as paragraph (a)(1), and added paragraph (a)(2).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1987, “physician” was substituted for “physican” following “examination by the” in the first sentence of subsection (a).
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2022, “is” was inserted in the last sentence of paragraph (a)(2).
Cross references.
Arrest of persons, T. 17, C. 4.
Licensing of applied psychologists, T. 43, C. 39.

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