§ 31-7-92. Filing of Audits
All final audits provided for in Code Section 31-7-91 shall be reproduced in sufficient number and copies of the audit shall be filed with the clerk of the superior court in the county where any hospital is operated by a hospital authority and in the office of the clerk of the superior court of any […]
§ 31-7-93. Failure to Provide for Audit
In the event any hospital authority shall fail or refuse to provide for an annual audit and have such audit prepared and filed as set forth in Code Sections 31-7-91 and 31-7-92, any taxpayer of any participating unit of such authority or the governing authority of such unit may petition the superior court of the […]
§ 31-7-94. Grants to Hospital Authorities and Rural Hospital Organizations
The state is authorized to make grants, as funds are available, to hospital authorities and rural hospital organizations for public health purposes, provided that any funds so granted shall be distributed to and among the various public hospital authorities and rural hospital organizations in the state in proportion to the number of hospital beds operated […]
§ 31-7-94.1. Rural Hospital Organization Assistance Act; Legislative Findings; Certification of Rural Hospitals for Grant Eligibility; Rules and Regulations
This Code section shall be known and may be cited as the “Rural Hospital Organization Assistance Act of 2017.” The General Assembly finds that hospital authorities and rural hospital organizations are essential in order to promote public health goals of the state. The General Assembly further finds that many rural hospital organizations are in desperate […]
§ 31-7-95. Funding of Medical Education Provided by Hospital Authorities and Designated Teaching Hospitals
As used in this Code section, the term: “Designated teaching hospital” means a teaching hospital operated by other than a hospital authority, which hospital agrees to contract with the state to offer or continue to offer a residency program approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), which program has at least one […]
§ 31-7-96. Construction of Article
This article, being necessary for the welfare of the citizens of the state, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof; and insofar as this article may be inconsistent with any other law, whether by charter of any political subdivision of the state or otherwise, this article shall be controlling. History. Ga. L. 1941, […]
§ 31-7-75.2. Exemption From Disclosure for Potentially Commercially Valuable Plan, Proposal, or Strategy
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no Georgia nonprofit corporation in its operation of a hospital or other medical facility for the benefit of a governmental entity in this state and no hospital authority shall be required by Chapter 14 of Title 50 or Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 […]
§ 31-7-90. Annual Report; Budget
The board of trustees of each authority created under this article shall file with the governing body or bodies of political subdivisions or participating units, on forms prescribed by the department, an annual report of the activities of the authority and shall annually consider and adopt as a part of such report a budget, which […]
§ 31-7-76. Procedure in Event of Failure of Authority to Perform Minimum Functions; Determination of Removal From Office; Appointments to Fill Vacancies Created by Removal
The General Assembly declares that it is the intent of this article to provide a mechanism for the operation and maintenance of needed health care facilities in the several counties and municipalities of this state. It is the further intent of the General Assembly that, whenever an authority ceases to perform the minimum functions required […]
§ 31-7-90.1. Community Benefit Report; Report Disclosing Member Ownership in Entities Transacting Business With Authority
Each hospital authority created by and under this article shall annually prepare a community benefit report disclosing the cost of indigent and charity care provided by such authority for the preceding year not later than 90 days after the close of the fiscal or calendar year. Such report provided for in this Code section shall […]