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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 166.208: LIMITATION ON LIABILITY FOR FAILURE TO EFFECTUATE DNR ORDER.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 2. HEALTH
- SUBTITLE H. PUBLIC HEALTH PROVISIONS
- CHAPTER 166. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
- SUBCHAPTER E. HEALTH CARE FACILITY DO-NOT-RESUSCITATE ORDERS
A physician, health care professional, health care facility, hospital, or entity that has no actual knowledge of a DNR order is not civilly or criminally liable or subject to review or disciplinary action by the appropriate licensing authority for failing to act in accordance with the order.
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 11 (S.B. 11), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2018.
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