suspension of advance care planning document.
[39-4511B, added 2012, ch. 302, sec. 10, p. 834; am. 2017, ch. 273, sec. 3, p. 714; am. 2023, ch. 307, sec. 13, p. 929.]
(1) An advance care planning document (ACPD) may be suspended at any time by the maker thereof by any of the following methods:
- (a) By a written signed suspension by the maker thereof expressing his intent to suspend;
- (b) By an oral expression by the maker thereof expressing his intent to suspend; or
- (c) By any other action that clearly manifests the maker’s intent to suspend the ACPD.
- (2) A health care provider who does not have actual knowledge of the suspension is entitled to rely on an otherwise apparently valid ACPD as though it had not been suspended.
- (3) There shall be no criminal or civil liability on the part of any person for the failure to act upon a suspension of an ACPD made pursuant to this chapter unless that person has actual knowledge of the suspension.
- (4) Upon meeting the termination terms of the suspension, if any, as defined by the written or oral expression by the maker, the conditions set forth in the ACPD will resume.
[39-4511B, added 2012, ch. 302, sec. 10, p. 834; am. 2017, ch. 273, sec. 3, p. 714; am. 2023, ch. 307, sec. 13, p. 929.]