New York Public Health Law Article 29-C - HEALTH CARE AGENTS AND PROXIES

• 2980 - Definitions.
  The following words or phrases, used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Adult" means any person who...
• 2981 - Appointment of Health Care Agent; Health Care Proxy.
  1. Authority to appoint agent; presumption of competence. (a) A competent adult may appoint a health care agent in accordance with the terms of this...
• 2982 - Rights and Duties of Agent.
  1. Scope of authority. Subject to any express limitations in the health care proxy, an agent shall have the authority to make any and all...
• 2983 - Determination of Lack of Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions for the Purpose of Empowering Agent.
  1. Determination by attending physician. (a) A determination that a principal lacks capacity to make health care decisions shall be made by the attending physician...
• 2984 - Provider's Obligations.
  1. A health care provider who is provided with a health care proxy shall arrange for the proxy or a copy thereof to be inserted...
• 2985 - Revocation.
  1. Means of revoking proxy. (a) A competent adult may revoke a health care proxy by notifying the agent or a health care provider orally...
• 2986 - Immunity.
  1. Provider immunity. No health care provider or employee thereof shall be subjected to criminal or civil liability, or be deemed to have engaged in...
• 2987 - Liability for Health Care Costs.
  Liability for the cost of health care provided pursuant to an agent's decision shall be the same as if the health care were provided pursuant...
• 2988 - Requiring or Prohibiting Execution of Proxy.
  No person may require or prohibit the execution of a health care proxy by an individual as a condition for providing health care services or...
• 2989 - Effect on Other Rights.
  1. A competent adult's failure to appoint a health care agent or to provide the agent with specific health care instructions pursuant to this article...
• 2990 - Proxies Executed in Other States.
  A health care proxy or similar instrument executed in another state or jurisdiction in compliance with the law of that state or jurisdiction shall be...
• 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...
• 2992 - Special Proceeding Authorized.
  The health care provider, the conservator for, or committee of the principal, members of the principal's family, a close friend of the principal as defined...
• 2993 - Regulations.
  The commissioner of health, in consultation with the commissioners of the office of mental health and the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, shall...
• 2994 - Rights to Be Publicized.
  The commissioner of health shall prepare a statement summarizing the rights, duties and requirements of this article and shall require that a copy of such...

Last modified: February 3, 2019