New York Public Health Law Section 2991 - Creation and use of proxies in residential health care and mental hygiene facilities.

  2991.  Creation  and  use of proxies in residential health care and
  mental hygiene facilities. 1. Residential  health  care  facilities  and
  mental hygiene facilities shall establish procedures:
(a)  to  provide  information  to adult residents about their right to
  create a health care proxy under this article;
(b) to educate adult residents about the authority delegated  under  a
  health  care proxy, what a proxy may include or omit, and how a proxy is
  created and revoked;
(c) to help ensure that  each  resident  who  creates  a  proxy  while
  residing at the facility does so voluntarily.
2. Such procedures shall be established in accordance with regulations
  issued  by  the  commissioners  of  health,  mental  health,  and mental
  retardation and developmental disabilities  for  facilities  subject  to
  their respective regulatory authorities.

Last modified: February 3, 2019