GroundRules
PROB § 4734
Where this section sits in the code
- Probate Code - PROB
- DIVISION 4.7. HEALTH CARE DECISIONS [4600. - 4806.]
- PART 2. UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT [4670. - 4743.]
- CHAPTER 4. Duties of Health Care Providers [4730. - 4736.]
(a) A health care provider may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision for reasons of conscience.
(b) A health care institution may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision if the instruction or decision is contrary to a policy of the institution that is expressly based on reasons of conscience and if the policy was timely communicated to the patient or to a person then authorized to make health care decisions for the patient.
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