No form, document, or other written matter which is required by law or rule or regulation to be filed as a vital record under the provisions of Chapter 10 of Title 31, which contains information which is exempt from disclosure under Code Section 31-10-25, and which is temporarily kept or maintained in any file or with any other documents in the office of the judge or clerk of any court prior to filing with the Department of Public Health shall be open to inspection by the general public, even though the other papers or documents in such file may be open to inspection.
(Code 1981, §50-18-76, enacted by Ga. L. 1991, p. 1943, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-4/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 6-3/HB 214; Ga. L. 2012, p. 218, § 2/HB 397.)
The 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, substituted "Department of Public Health" for "Department of Community Health" near the end of this Code section.
Editor's notes.- Ga. L. 2012, p. 218, § 2/HB 397, effective April 17, 2012, reenacted this Code section without change.