New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 137-J:8: Restrictions on Who May Act as Agent or Surrogate.

Where this section sits in the code

Title X: PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 137-J: WRITTEN DIRECTIVES FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING FOR ADULTS WITHOUT CAPACITY TO MAKE HEALTH CARE DECISIONS
Advance Directives

A person may not exercise the authority of an agent or a surrogate while serving in one of the following capacities:

I. The principal's attending practitioner or a person acting under the direct authority of the attending practitioner.

II. A nonrelative of the principal who is an employee of the principal's health care provider or residential care provider.

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