{"id":"DUT-GA-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Georgia","state":"GA","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended 2002)","authority":"Police power of the State; Title 31, Chapter 12","instrument":"O.C.G.A. section 31-12-3","title":"Power to require immunization and other preventive measures","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["VAX","QUAR","DUTY"],"addressees":["persons generally located within the jurisdiction of the Department or a county board of health"],"clause":"The department may, in addition, require such other measures to prevent the conveyance of infectious matter from infected persons to other persons as may be necessary and appropriate. The department shall promulgate appropriate rules and regulations for the implementation of the provisions of this Code section in the case of a declaration of a public health emergency...","enforcement":"Misdemeanor under O.C.G.A. section 31-5-8; injunction under section 31-5-9 (Ex. DUT-GA-004)","functions":[],"notes":"The Department and county boards may require persons within their jurisdictions to submit to vaccination against a contagious disease \u0027whether or not the disease may be an active threat,\u0027 and the Department may require \u0027such other measures to prevent the conveyance of infectious matter from infected persons to other persons as may be necessary and appropriate\u0027 (the statutory basis for distancing, exclusion and sanitation measures); religious objection is preserved only \u0027in the absence of an epidemic or immediate threat thereof\u0027 (subsection (b)). Character as recorded: statutory_authority (enabling power; binds through the orders issued under it).","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2024/T31%20(V23)%202019.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":3338916,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_authority","description":"","collection":"DUT-GA","url":"/library/DUT-GA-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-GA-002","citation":"General Assembly of Georgia (Code 1933, section 88-1203, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, section 1; amended 2002), O.C.G.A. section 31-12-3 (standing) (Ex. DUT-GA-002)","stateName":"Georgia","related":["DUT-GA-001","DUT-GA-005","DUT-GA-004"]}