Georgia § 19-10A-2 - Definitions.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 19-10A-2 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 19-10A-2. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the term: "Fire station" means a facility of any fire department which is authorized to exercise the general and emergency powers enumerated in Code Sections 25-3-1 and 25-3-2. "Medical facility" means any licensed general or specialized hospital, institutional infirmary, health center operated by a county board of health, or facility where human births occur on a regular and ongoing basis which is classified by the Department of Community Health as a birthing center, but shall not mean physicians' or dentists' private offices. "Police station" means a facility of any sheriff's office, municipal police department, or county police department. (Code 1981, § 19-10A-2 , enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1137, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 12, § 2-1/SB 433; Ga. L. 2017, p. 522, § 1/HB 391.) The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, added a colon after "term" at the end of the introductory paragraph; added paragraph (1); designated the previously existing provisions of this Code section as paragraph (2); in paragraph (2), substituted "Medical" for "medical" at the beginning, and substituted "means" for "shall mean" near the beginning; and added paragraph (3).
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