Revocation of advance care planning document.
[(39-4511A) 39-4511, added 2005, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 389; am. 2006, ch. 67, sec. 4, p. 208; am. 2007, ch. 196, sec. 12, p. 590; am. and redesig. 2012, ch. 302, sec. 9, p. 834; am. 2017, ch. 273, sec. 2, p. 714; am. 2023, ch. 307, sec. 12, p. 928.]
(1) An advance care planning document (ACPD) may be revoked at any time by the maker thereof by any of the following methods:
- (a) By being intentionally canceled, defaced, obliterated, burned, torn, or otherwise destroyed by the maker thereof, or by some person in his presence and by his direction;
- (b) By a written signed revocation by the maker thereof expressing his intent to revoke;
- (c) By an oral expression by the maker thereof expressing his intent to revoke; or
- (d) By any other action that clearly manifests the maker’s intent to revoke the ACPD.
- (2) The maker of the revoked ACPD is responsible for notifying his health care providers of the revocation. A health care provider who does not have actual knowledge of the revocation is entitled to rely on an otherwise apparently valid ACPD as though it had not been revoked.
- (3) There shall be no criminal or civil liability on the part of any person for the failure to act upon a revocation of an ACPD made pursuant to this chapter unless that person has actual knowledge of the revocation.
[(39-4511A) 39-4511, added 2005, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 389; am. 2006, ch. 67, sec. 4, p. 208; am. 2007, ch. 196, sec. 12, p. 590; am. and redesig. 2012, ch. 302, sec. 9, p. 834; am. 2017, ch. 273, sec. 2, p. 714; am. 2023, ch. 307, sec. 12, p. 928.]