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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 166.085: EXECUTION OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER ON BEHALF OF A MINOR.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 2. HEALTH
- SUBTITLE H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS
- CHAPTER 166. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
- SUBCHAPTER C. OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDERS
(a) The following persons may execute an out-of-hospital DNR order on behalf of a minor:
(1) the minor's parents;
(2) the minor's legal guardian; or
(3) the minor's managing conservator.
(b) A person listed under Subsection (a) may not execute an out-of-hospital DNR order unless the minor has been diagnosed by a physician as suffering from a terminal or irreversible condition.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 10, eff. June 16, 1995. Renumbered from Sec. 674.005 by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 1.04, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1228, Sec. 6, eff. June 20, 2003.
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