{"data":{"id":"us-ca/prob-4734","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PROB § 4734","heading":"","body":"(a) A health care provider may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision for reasons of conscience.\n(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.","path":["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.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"941f0cef18650cbf4bb0b47fd002e8ddef816fab6bb7d7220940cb324973258d","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/prob-4733","next":"us-ca/prob-4735"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}