{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-2","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 43-44-2","heading":"Declaration of purpose.","body":"It is declared to be a policy of this state that in order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare and to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons, it is necessary to provide regulatory authority over persons offering speech-language pathology and audiology services to the public.","path":["TITLE 43 Professions And Businesses","CHAPTER 44 Speech-language Pathologists and Audiologists","Article 1 State Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Licensing"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.43.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"6cea0b61c13d5abfc02835015894369459e9c77e351c3bbb7558e54e4c0cacc7","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-1","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-43-44-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}