Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 1309 - Obstructing emergency medical professionals; define offense

Page Numbers - 1/ 2

Code Sections - 16-10-24.2

1. Culbreth  132nd        2. Buck  135th             3. Chambless  163rd
4. Taylor  134th          5. Hugley  133rd           6. Smith  102nd


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              1/12/96  Read 1st Time                                                                
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              2/5/96   Favorably Reported                                                           
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Code Sections amended: 16-10-24.2                                                                   


HB 1309                                           LC 22 2128S


                _________________________ offers the following
      substitute to HB 1309:


                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to offenses against public
  1- 3  administration, so as to provide for the offense of
  1- 4  obstructing or hindering emergency medical professionals or
  1- 5  persons working under the direction of emergency medical
  1- 6  professionals; to clarify certain terms; to provide a
  1- 7  definition; to provide penalties; to repeal conflicting
  1- 8  laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 9       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-10  Chapter 10 of Title 16 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1-11  Annotated, relating to offenses against public
  1-12  administration, is amended in Article 2 by striking in its
  1-13  entirety Code Section 16-10-24.2, relating to obstructing or
  1-14  hindering emergency medical technicians, and inserting in
  1-15  lieu thereof the following:

  1-16    "16-10-24.2. (Index)

  1-17    (a) As used in this Code section, the term:

  1-18      (1) 'Emergency medical technician' means any person who
  1-19      has been certified as an emergency medical technician,
  1-20      cardiac technician, paramedic, or first responder
  1-21      pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 31.

  1-22      (2) 'Emergency medical professional' means any person
  1-23      performing emergency medical services who is licensed or
  1-24      certified to provide health care in accordance with the
  1-25      provisions of Chapter 11, Chapter 26, or Chapter 34 of
  1-26      Title 43.

  1-27    (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this
  1-28    Code section, a person who knowingly and willfully
  1-29    obstructs or hinders any emergency medical technician, any
  1-30    emergency medical professional, or any properly identified
  1-31    person working under the direction of an emergency medical
  1-32    professional in the lawful discharge of the emergency


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                                                 LC 22 2128S

  2- 1    medical technician's official duties of such emergency
  2- 2    medical technician, emergency medical professional, or
  2- 3    properly identified person working under the direction of
  2- 4    an emergency medical professional is guilty of a
  2- 5    misdemeanor.

  2- 6    (c) Whoever knowingly and willfully resists, or obstructs,
  2- 7    or opposes any emergency medical technician, any emergency
  2- 8    medical professional, or any properly identified person
  2- 9    working under the direction of an emergency medical
  2-10    professional in the lawful discharge of the emergency
  2-11    medical technician's official duties of the emergency
  2-12    medical technician, emergency medical professional, or
  2-13    properly identified person working under the direction of
  2-14    an emergency medical professional by offering threatening
  2-15    or doing violence to the person of such emergency medical
  2-16    technician, emergency medical professional, or properly
  2-17    identified person working under the direction of an
  2-18    emergency medical professional is guilty of a felony and
  2-19    shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by
  2-20    imprisonment for not less than one nor more than five
  2-21    years."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-22  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-23  repealed.























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