The Act allows medical and health care facilities to provide living will forms to patients if a specific request is made by a patient wanting to execute such a will.
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The Act changes the standard of proof for order regarding sterilization of mentally incompetent persons from a preponderance of evidence to clear and convincing evidence. It provides for closed hearings and trials in connection with sterilization orders, the addition of a psychiatrist or psychologist on the examining team to determine
The Act provides for the continuance of private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage for an unnamed insured spouse for a ninety day period following the death of the name insured spouse or termination of the marital relationship with the named insured or until the policy expires, whichever is shorter, upon
The Acts establish procedural requirements for the enactment of local zoning laws. HB 51 applies statewide and HB 325 applies to the city of Atlanta, Fulton County and Dekalb County.
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The Act requires that notice of a petition to probate a will in solemn form by served upon propounders and beneficiaries under another will of the testator. It gives the probate court original jurisdiction to vacate, set aside or amend an order admitting a will to probate. It establishes the
The Act establishes procedures for polygraph examiners and provdes examinees with certain rights including a cause of action against the examiner.
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The Act adds a requirement for a maturity date on financing statements or specification that the obligation does not have a maturity date; provides that the duration of the financing statement shall be for five years or twenty days after the maturity date; and provides for a maturity date on
The Act creates the crime of and provides the penalties for pharmacy robbery when a person unlawfully takes a controlled substance from a pharmacy or wholesale druggist.
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The Act raises the minimum penalties for conviction of cocaine trafficking. It authorizes the establishment of a Special Cocaine Task Force and a toll free number within the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. It also provides for the purchase, operation and maintenance of a van to educate the public on the
The Act amends the Georgia Motor Accident Reparations Act by deleting the prior language of O.C.G.A. § 33-34-12. In order to meet a successful constitutional challenge to prior law, O.C.G.A. § 36-32-7 confers jurisdiction on the recorder's, mayor's or police courts of
The Acts deal with changes in the legal age for purchasing alcoholic beverages and with a new violation, the misrepresentation of identity for the purpose of obtaining alcoholic beverages.
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