TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 45

THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT

39-4512C.  Duty to inspect. Health care providers shall make reasonable efforts to inquire as to whether the patient has completed a POST form and inspect the patient for a POST identification device when presented with a situation calling for artificial life-sustaining treatment not caused by severe trauma or involving mass casualties and with no indication of homicide or suicide.

History:

[39-4512C, added 2007, ch. 196, sec. 15, p. 591; am. 2023, ch. 307, sec. 17, p. 930.]