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Illinois Mental Health Treatment Preference Declaration Act - 755 ILCS 43, Section 55Legal Research Home > Illinois Lawyer > Mental Health Treatment Preference Declaration Act > Illinois Mental Health Treatment Preference Declaration Act - 755 ILCS 43, Section 55 Declaration protects physician or provider from legal action. A physician who, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, determines that the principal is capable or incapable of revoking a declaration or a physician or provider who administers or does not administer mental health treatment according to and in good faith reliance upon the decision or direction of the attorney-in-fact or the validity of a declaration is not subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or professional disciplinary action resulting from a subsequent finding of a declaration's invalidity. (Source: P.A. 89-439, eff. 6-1-96.) Illinois Lawyers
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