(a) A supervising health care provider, health care provider, or health care institution may subject the principal to mental health treatment in a manner contrary to the principal's preferences and instructions as expressed in an advance mental health care directive only:
- (1) When a court order under part 3 of article V of chapter 560 contradicts the principal's preferences and instructions as expressed in the advance mental health care directive; or
- (2) In cases of emergency when the principal poses an imminent threat to the safety of self or others.
- (b) Neither an advance mental health care directive nor this chapter limits any authority either to take an individual into custody or to admit, retain, or treat an individual in a health care institution pursuant to part IV of chapter 334.
[L 2004, c 224, pt of §2]