§ 31-32-12. Restriction on Requiring and Preparing Advance Directives for Health Care
No physician, health care facility, or health care provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, or self-insured employee welfare benefit plan shall require any person to execute an advance directive for health care as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services. A health care facility shall only […]
§ 31-32-13. Penalties and Legal Sanctions for Violations
All persons shall be subject to the following sanctions in relation to advance directives for health care, in addition to all other sanctions applicable under any other law or rule of professional conduct: Any person who, without the declarant’s consent, willfully conceals, cancels, or alters an advance directive for health care or any amendment or […]
§ 31-32-14. Effect of Chapter on Other Legal Rights and Duties
Nothing in this chapter shall impair or supersede any legal right or legal responsibility which any person may have to effect the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or the withholding or withdrawal of the provision of nourishment or hydration in any lawful manner. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or […]
§ 31-32-1. Short Title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act.” History. Code 1981, § 31-32-1 , enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 133, § 2/HB 24. Law reviews. For survey article on wills, trusts, guardianships, and fiduciary administration, see 60 Mercer L. Rev. 417 (2008). For note, […]