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  1. The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission, which is administratively assigned to the Department of Public Health, shall establish procedures whereby a person with a traumatic brain or spinal cord injury for whom a report is made pursuant to this chapter shall be informed of appropriate agencies, departments, hospitals, facilities, organizations, or individuals providing rehabilitative, independent living, and other services or goods.
  2. The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission shall maintain records of reports and notifications made under this chapter. The Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund Commission shall produce an annual report relating to information and data collected pursuant to this chapter and shall make such report available upon request. Such report shall be submitted annually no later than October 1 to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination.
  3. Statistical information collected under this chapter shall be available to any other federal or state agency or private organization concerned with traumatic brain or spinal cord injuries, but no names or addresses will be provided without the consent of the person with the traumatic brain or spinal cord injury or the consent of the immediate family or guardian of such person if that person is unable to consent.

(Code 1933, § 88-3404, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1245, § 1; Ga. L. 1981, p. 1027, § 2; Ga. L. 1982, p. 833, § 2; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31; Ga. L. 1985, p. 871, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1137, § 3; Ga. L. 2004, p. 1107, § 2; Ga. L. 2006, p. 175, § 1/SB 208; Ga. L. 2009, p. 8, § 31/SB 46; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-13/HB 186.)

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, added the third sentence in subsection (b).

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-1/HB 186, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This part shall be known and may be cited as 'The Health Act.'"

Law reviews.

- For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 147 (2011).

CHAPTER 19 CONTROL OF RABIES

Sec.

  • 31-19-1. Responsibility for control.
  • 31-19-2. Powers of department in infected area.
  • 31-19-3. Licensing and regulation of animals by local authorities.
  • 31-19-4. Duty of notification.
  • 31-19-5. Inoculation of canines and felines against rabies.
  • 31-19-6. Certificates of inoculation; tags [Repealed].
  • 31-19-7. County rabies control officer.
  • 31-19-8. Joint administration of chapter by adjoining counties.
  • 31-19-9. Applicability to municipalities with rabies control laws.
  • 31-19-10. Penalty.
Administrative Rules and Regulations.

- Rabies control, Official Compilation of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia, Georgia Department of Public Health, Disease Surveillance and Control, Subject 511-2-7.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Control of rabies generally is delegated to county boards of health and control of dangerous drugs is vested with State Board of Pharmacy and state drug inspector (now director of Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency). 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-23.

Expense of confining animals exhibiting signs of rabies included in county board's budget.

- Local county boards of health should prescribe rules for prevention and control of rabies by providing for vaccination, tagging, and certification of dogs, and for confinement of any animal which exhibits any signs of rabies; cost of such confinement would be an expense of county board of health to be included in the board's budget which is submitted to local taxing authorities under provisions of Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-21.

Responsibility of county boards of health regarding strays and unwanted dogs.

- Local county boards of health should adopt rules and regulations relative to catching and impounding of strays and unwanted dogs. 1965-66 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 65-21.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 3B C.J.S., Animals, § 123.

ALR.

- Liability for injuries inflicted by rabid dog, 13 A.L.R. 492.

Constitutionality of "dog laws," 49 A.L.R. 847.

Right to and measure of compensation for animals or trees destroyed to prevent spread of disease or infection, 67 A.L.R. 208.

Liability for injuries caused by cat, 68 A.L.R.4th 823.


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