{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-303","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-303","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 41-41-303","body":"(1) A physician or health-care provider acting in good faith and in accordance with generally accepted health-care standards applicable to the physician or health-care provider is not subject to civil or criminal liability or to discipline for unprofessional conduct for:\n\n(a) Executing a physician order for sustaining treatment in compliance with a health-care decision of a person apparently having authority to make a health-care decision for a patient, including a decision to provide, withhold or withdraw health care;\n\n(b) Declining to execute a physician order for sustaining treatment in compliance with a health-care decision of a person based on a belief that the person then lacked authority; or\n\n(c) Complying with an apparently valid physician order for sustaining treatment on the assumption that the order was valid when made and has not been revoked or terminated.\n\n(2) A health-care provider or institution that intentionally violates Section 41-41-302 is subject to liability to the aggrieved individual for damages of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or actual damages resulting from the violation, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.\n\n(3) A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates an individual's physician order for sustaining treatment or a revocation of a physician order for sustaining treatment without the individual's consent, or who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to give, revoke, or not to give a physician order for sustaining treatment, is subject to liability to that individual for damages of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) or actual damages resulting from the action, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney's fees.\n\n(4) On petition of a patient, the patient's agent, guardian, or surrogate, a health-care provider or institution involved with the patient's care, or surrogate for the patient as described in Section 41-41-211(2) or (3) , any court of competent jurisdiction may enjoin or direct a health-care decision related to a physician order for scope of treatment, or order other equitable relief. A proceeding under this section shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.","path":["MS Code","Title 41"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:17Z","sha256":"fac5369aeb71cf92f5982b2a655e41dc397e638d1b18f40d40cf75f68b2c377f","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-302","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-41-41-31"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}