Illinois Compiled Statutes 755 Estates: Article -

• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 1
  Purpose. The legislature finds that persons have the fundamental right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 2
  Definitions: (a) "Attending physician" means the physician selected by, or assigned to, the patient who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 3
  Execution of a Document. (a) An individual of sound mind and having reached the age of majority or having obtained the status of an emancipated...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 4
  Recording of a Terminal Condition. Upon determining that the declarant has a terminal condition, the attending physician who knows of a declaration shall record...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 5
  Revocation. (a) A declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant, without regard to declarant's mental or physical condition, by any of...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 6
  Physician Responsibilities. An attending physician who has been notified of the existence of a declaration executed under this Act, without delay after the diagnosis of...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 7
  Immunity. The desires of a qualified patient shall at all times supersede the effect of the declaration. A physician or other health-care provider may...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 8
  Penalties. (a) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the declaration of another without such declarant's consent or who falsifies or...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 9
  General provisions. (a) The withholding or withdrawal of death delaying procedures from a qualified patient in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall...
• Illinois Living Will Act. - 755 ILCS 35, Section 10
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Living Will Act". (Source: P.A. 83-824.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015