Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 32 - Advance Directives for Health Care

• § 31-32-1 - Short Title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Georgia Advance Directive for Health Care Act."
• § 31-32-2 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Advance directive for health care" means a written document voluntarily executed by a declarant in accordance...
• § 31-32-3 - Savings Clause for Existing Living Wills and Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care
  The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to, affect, or invalidate a living will or durable power of attorney for health care executed...
• § 31-32-4 - Form
  "GEORGIA ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR HEALTH CARE By: Date of Birth: (Print Name) (Month/Day/Year) This advance directive for health care has four parts: PART ONE...
• § 31-32-5 - Execution; Use of Form or Other Forms; Witnesses; Copies; Amendment
  (a) Any person of sound mind who is emancipated or 18 years of age or older may execute a document which: (1) Appoints a...
• § 31-32-6 - Revocation; Declarant's Marriage or Appointment of a Guardian
  (a) An advance directive for health care may be revoked at any time by the declarant, without regard to the declarant's mental state or...
• § 31-32-7 - Duties and Responsibilities of Health Care Agents
  (a) A health care agent shall not have the authority to make a particular health care decision different from or contrary to the declarant's...
• § 31-32-8 - Duties and Responsibilities of Health Care Providers
  Each health care provider and each other person with whom a health care agent interacts under an advance directive for health care shall be...
• § 31-32-9 - Conditions Precedent to Carrying Out Health Care Treatment Preferences; Physician's Failure to Comply With Treatment Preferences
  (a) Prior to effecting a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or the withholding or withdrawal of the provision of nourishment or hydration from...
• § 31-32-10 - Immunity From Liability or Disciplinary Action
  (a) Each health care provider, health care facility, and any other person who acts in good faith reliance on any direction or decision by...
• § 31-32-11 - Advance Directive for Health Care's Relationship to Criminal and Insurance Laws
  (a) The making of an advance directive for health care containing a declarant's directions regarding the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or the...
• § 31-32-12 - Restriction on Requiring and Preparing Advance Directives for Health Care
  (a) No physician, health care facility, or health care provider and no health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit...
• § 31-32-13 - Penalties and Legal Sanctions for Violations
  All persons shall be subject to the following sanctions in relation to advance directives for health care, in addition to all other sanctions applicable...
• § 31-32-14 - Effect of Chapter on Other Legal Rights and Duties
  (a) Nothing in this chapter shall impair or supersede any legal right or legal responsibility which any person may have to effect the withholding...

Last modified: October 14, 2016