§ 3080.4. Presumption of nutrition and hydration, when inapplicable
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and Safety
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 3080.4
§ 3080.4. Presumption of nutrition and hydration, when inapplicable
3. An advance directive has been executed pursuant to the Oklahoma Natural Death Act1 specifically authorizing the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and/or hydration;
4. An advance directive has been executed pursuant to the Oklahoma Rights of the Terminally Ill or Persistently Unconscious Act2 specifically authorizing the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and/or hydration;
5. An advance directive for health care has been executed pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act3 specifically authorizing the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and/or hydration;
6. In the reasonable medical judgment of the incompetent patient's attending physician and a second consulting physician, artificially administered hydration or artificially administered nutrition will itself cause severe, intractable, and long-lasting pain to the incompetent patient or such nutrition or hydration is not medically possible; or
Credits
Laws 1987, c. 40, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1987; Laws 1990, c. 268, § 9, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1992, c. 114, § 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 2, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
Footnotes
Title 63, § 3101 et seq. (repealed; see, now, Title 63, § 3101.1 et seq.).
Title 63, § 3101.1 et seq. (renamed the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act).
Title 63, § 3101.1 et seq.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 3080.4, OK ST T. 63 § 3080.4
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 3 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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