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California Probate Code Section 4734

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(a) A health care provider may decline to comply with an
individual health care instruction or health care decision for
reasons of conscience.
   (b) A health care institution may decline to comply with an
individual health care instruction or health care decision if the
instruction or decision is contrary to a policy of the institution
that is expressly based on reasons of conscience and if the policy
was timely communicated to the patient or to a person then authorized
to make health care decisions for the patient.

Last modified: January 12, 2009