{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3105.3","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3105.3","heading":"Orders for life-sustaining treatment – Standardized","body":"form – Noncompliant forms.\n\nA. The Office of the Attorney General shall establish the\n\nstandardized format for a form in accordance with the provisions of\n\nSection 4 of this act, adhering to the directions, sequence and\n\nwording in those provisions.\n\nB. An Oklahoma physician orders for life-sustaining treatment\n\nshall be executed, implemented, reviewed and revoked in accordance\n\nwith the instructions on the form required by this section. At the\n\nbeginning of renewing and preparing it in consultation with the\n\npatient or the patient's legally authorized representative, the\n\nattending physician or the health care professional preparing the\n\nform or an agent of either shall give that person a copy of the\n\ndisclosure statement described in Section 3163 of Title 63 of the\n\nOklahoma Statutes. When a patient with a valid POLST experiences a\n\nchange in medical condition that creates a situation in which, in\n\nreasonable medical judgment, withholding specific health care\n\nrejected by the POLST will cause or hasten the patient's death, if\n\nthe patient is then capable of making decisions affecting health\n\ncare the attending physician shall discuss the situation and\n\ntreatment with the patient and determine whether, on the basis of\n\ninformation sufficient for informed consent, the patient still\n\nwishes the direction in the POLST to control or instead wishes to\n\nreceive the treatment.\n\nC. A physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST),\n\nphysician orders for scope of treatment (POST), medical orders for\n\nlife-sustaining treatment (MOLST), medical orders for scope of\n\ntreatment (MOST), transportable physician orders for patient\n\npreferences (TPOPP) or similar document that does not comply with\n\nthe standardized format for an Oklahoma physician orders for life-\n\nsustaining treatment established by regulations promulgated in\n\naccordance with this section:\n\na. that was executed in this state prior to the effective\n\ndate of the standardized format established in\n\naccordance with this section shall have no validity\n\nafter forty-five (45) days following that effective\n\ndate or after ten (10) days following the admission of\n\nthe patient to an Oklahoma medical care facility,\n\nwhichever is later; provided, that a standardized\n\nformat Oklahoma physician orders for life-sustaining\n\ntreatment executed subsequent to such document's\n\nexecution shall immediately supersede it, or\n\nb. that was executed outside this state in compliance\n\nwith the laws of the jurisdiction of execution shall\n\nhave no validity after ten (10) days following the\n\nadmission of the patient to an Oklahoma medical care\n\nfacility; provided, that a standardized format\n\nOklahoma physician orders for life-sustaining\n\ntreatment executed subsequent to such document's\n\nexecution shall immediately supersede it.","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":"f55d5482301f0cf31626fc3aa6b71f690c50c167b7bb10bcefd2cc504c1254a9","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3105.2","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3105.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}