Georgia § 31-18-2 - Definitions.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 31-18-2 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 31-18-2. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the term: "Brain injury" means a traumatic injury to the brain (cranio-cerebral head trauma), not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but arising from blunt or penetrating trauma or from acceleration-deceleration forces, that is associated with any of these symptoms or signs attributed to the injury: decreased level of consciousness, amnesia, other neurologic or neuropsychologic abnormalities, skull fracture, or diagnosed intracranial lesions. These impairments may be either temporary or permanent and can result in a partial or total functional disability. "Spinal cord injury" means a traumatic injury to the spinal cord, not of a degenerative or congenital nature, but arising from blunt or penetrating trauma or from acceleration-deceleration forces, resulting in paraplegia or quadriplegia, which can be a partial or total loss of physical function. (Code 1933, § 88-3402, enacted by Ga. L. 1980, p. 1245, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 871, § 1; Ga. L. 2006, p. 175, § 1/SB 208.)
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