Nevada Revised Statutes Section 449.850 - Public Health and Safety

Attorney-in-fact: Prohibited acts; duties.

1. The attorney-in-fact may not consent to:

(a) Commitment or placement of the principal in a facility for treatment of mental illness;

(b) Convulsive treatment;

(c) Psychosurgery;

(d) Sterilization;

(e) Abortion;

(f) Aversive intervention, as that term is defined in NRS 449.766; or

(g) Any other treatment to which the principal, in the power of attorney, states that the attorney-in-fact may not consent.

2. The attorney-in-fact must make decisions concerning the use or nonuse of life sustaining treatment which conform to the known desires of the principal. The principal may make these desires known in the power of attorney.

Last modified: February 26, 2006