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                Georgia Code
              
 
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                Health
              
 
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                Care and Protection of Indigent and Elderly Patients
              
 
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                Indigent Care Trust Fund
              
 
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 As used in this article, the term: 
 -  "Department" means the Department of Community Health created by Chapter 2 of this title. 
  -  "Medically indigent" means a person who meets the state-wide standards of indigency adopted by the department for the purposes of this article. 
  -  "Trust fund" means the Indigent Care Trust Fund created by Code Section 31-8-152. 
  
 
 (Code 1981, §31-8-151, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 139, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 1014, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 9; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-8/HB 228.) 
          
           
           
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