KRS 311.627: Revocation.

(1) An advance directive made pursuant to KRS 311.623 may be revoked by:

(a) A writing declaring an intention to revoke, which writing shall be signed and

dated by the grantor;

(b) An oral statement of intent to revoke made by a grantor with decisional

capacity in the presence of two (2) adults, one (1) of whom shall be a health

care provider; or

(c) Destruction of the document by the grantor or by some person in the grantor's

presence and at the grantor's direction.

(2) An oral statement by a grantor with deci sional capacity to revoke an advance

directive shall override any previous written advance directive made.

(3) Any revocation made pursuant to this section shall become effective immediately.

An attending physician or health care facility shall not be requ ired to administer

treatment in accordance with the revocation until the time notice of the revocation is

received. Upon receiving notice of the revocation, the attending physician or health

care facility shall record, in the grantor's medical record, the time, date, and place of

the notice receipt. No physician or health care facility shall be subject to any

liability for acting in good faith upon the knowledge, or lack thereof, of the

existence or revocation of an advance directive.

(4) The designation of a health care surrogate made pursuant to KRS 311.623 may be

revoked in whole or in part or the surrogate's powers reduced or limited at any time

by the grantor, if the grantor has decisional capacity. A new designation shall

revoke any prior designation u nless the revocation, in whole or in part, is

specifically negated.