{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3080.4","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3080.4","heading":"Presumption of nutrition and hydration, when","body":"inapplicable.\n\nA. The presumption pursuant to Section 3080.3 of this title\n\nshall not apply if:\n\n1. The attending physician of the incompetent patient knows\n\nthat the patient, when competent, decided on the basis of\n\ninformation sufficient to constitute informed consent that\n\nartificially administered hydration or artificially administered\n\nnutrition should be withheld or withdrawn from him;\n\n2. A court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the\n\npatient, when competent, decided on the basis of information\n\nsufficient to constitute informed consent that artificially\n\nadministered hydration or artificially administered nutrition should\n\nbe withheld or withdrawn from him;\n\n3. An advance directive has been executed pursuant to the\n\nOklahoma Natural Death Act specifically authorizing the withholding\n\nor withdrawal of nutrition and/or hydration;\n\n4. An advance directive has been executed pursuant to the\n\nOklahoma Rights of the Terminally Ill or Persistently Unconscious\n\nAct specifically authorizing the withholding or withdrawal of\n\nnutrition and/or hydration;\n\n5. An advance directive for health care has been executed\n\npursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act specifically\n\nauthorizing the withholding or withdrawal of nutrition and/or\n\nhydration;\n\n6. In the reasonable medical judgment of the incompetent\n\npatient's attending physician and a second consulting physician,\n\nartificially administered hydration or artificially administered\n\nnutrition will itself cause severe, intractable, and long-lasting\n\npain to the incompetent patient or such nutrition or hydration is\n\nnot medically possible; or\n\n7. In the reasonable medical judgment of the incompetent\n\npatient's attending physician and a second consulting physician:\n\na. the incompetent patient is chronically and\n\nirreversibly incompetent,\n\nb. the incompetent patient is in the final stage of a\n\nterminal illness or injury, and\n\nc. the death of the incompetent patient is imminent.\n\nB. No advance directive shall be deemed to satisfy the\n\nprovisions of subsection A of this section unless the advance\n\ndirective complies with the requirements of Section 3101.4 or\n\nSection 3101.14 of this title.\n\nC. Hydration or nutrition may not be withheld or withdrawn\n\npursuant to paragraph 7 of subsection A of this section if this\n\nwould result in death from dehydration or starvation rather than\n\nfrom the underlying terminal illness or injury.","path":["OK Code","Title 63"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os63.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"5e7f7c2a90c414ab2cfd2755d3caffcb4a3ba4a969f11bf36f25ea9c58f1b422","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3080.3","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3080.5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}