2988 – Requiring or Prohibiting Execution of Proxy.
§ 2988. Requiring or prohibiting execution of proxy. No person may require or prohibit the execution of a health care proxy by an individual as a condition for providing health care services or insurance to such individual.
2989 – Effect on Other Rights.
§ 2989. Effect on other rights. 1. A competent adult’s failure to appoint a health care agent or to provide the agent with specific health care instructions pursuant to this article shall create no presumptions regarding the adult’s wishes about health care. 2. Nothing in this article creates, expands, diminishes, impairs or supersedes any authority […]
2981 – Appointment of Health Care Agent; Health Care Proxy.
§ 2981. Appointment of health care agent; health care proxy. 1. Authority to appoint agent; presumption of competence. (a) A competent adult may appoint a health care agent in accordance with the terms of this article. (b) For the purposes of this section, every adult shall be presumed competent to appoint a health care agent […]
2982 – Rights and Duties of Agent.
§ 2982. Rights and duties of agent. 1. Scope of authority. Subject to any express limitations in the health care proxy, an agent shall have the authority to make any and all health care decisions on the principal’s behalf that the principal could make. Such authority shall be subject to the provisions of section twenty-nine […]
2980 – Definitions.
§ 2980. Definitions. The following words or phrases, used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Adult” means any person who is eighteen years of age or older, or is the parent of a child, or has married. 2. “Attending practitioner” means the physician, physician assistant, or nurse […]