ARTICLE 1. General Provisions [4670. - 4679.]

Article 1 added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39.

§§ 4670–4679 · 10 sections

• § 4670 An adult having capacity may give an individual health care instruction. The individual instruction may be oral or written. The individual instruction may be…
• § 4671 (a) An adult having capacity may execute a power of attorney for health care, as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 4680). The power of attorney…
• § 4672 (a) A written advance health care directive may include the individual’s nomination of a conservator of the person or estate or both, or a guardian of the…
• § 4673 (a) A written advance health care directive is legally sufficient if all of the following requirements are satisfied: (1) The advance directive contains the…
• § 4674 If the written advance health care directive is signed by witnesses, as provided in Section 4673, the following requirements shall be satisfied: (a) The…
• § 4675 (a) If an individual is a patient in a skilled nursing facility when a written advance health care directive is executed, the advance directive is not…
• § 4676 (a) A written advance health care directive or similar instrument executed in another state or jurisdiction in compliance with the laws of that state or…
• § 4677 A health care provider, health care service plan, health care institution, disability insurer, self-insured employee welfare plan, or nonprofit hospital plan…
• § 4678 Unless otherwise specified in an advance health care directive, a person then authorized to make health care decisions for a patient has the same rights as the…
• § 4679 (a) (1) This chapter does not prohibit the execution of a voluntary standalone psychiatric advance directive. (2) As used in this chapter, “psychiatric advance…