{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3111.3","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3111.3","heading":"Execution for power of attorney for health care –","body":"Authority of agent.\n\nA. A person with capacity may give an oral or written\n\nindividual instruction. The instruction may be limited to take\n\neffect only if a specified condition arises.\n\nB. A person with capacity may execute a power of attorney for\n\nhealth care, which may authorize the agent to make any health care\n\ndecision the principal could have made while having capacity other\n\nthan the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment,\n\nnutrition, or hydration, which may only be authorized in compliance\n\nwith the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act; provided, however, the\n\npower of attorney for health care may authorize the agent to sign a\n\ndo-not-resuscitate consent in accordance with the provisions of the\n\nOklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act, Section 3131.1 et seq. of Title 63\n\nof the Oklahoma Statutes. The power shall be in writing and signed\n\nby the principal. The power remains in effect notwithstanding the\n\nprincipal’s later incapacity and may include individual\n\ninstructions. Unless related to the principal by blood, marriage,\n\nor adoption, an agent may not be an owner, operator, or employee of\n\na residential long-term health care institution at which the\n\nprincipal is receiving care.\n\nC. Unless otherwise specified in a power of attorney for health\n\ncare, the authority of an agent becomes effective only upon a\n\ndetermination that the principal lacks capacity and ceases to be\n\neffective upon a determination that the principal has recovered\n\ncapacity.\n\nD. Unless otherwise specified in a power of attorney for health\n\ncare, a determination that an individual lacks or has recovered\n\ncapacity, or that another condition exists that affects an\n\nindividual instruction or the authority of an agent, shall be made\n\nby the attending physician.\n\nE. An agent shall make health care decisions in accordance with\n\nthe principal’s individual instructions, if any, and other wishes to\n\nthe extent known to the agent. Otherwise, the agent shall make the\n\ndecision in accordance with the agent’s determination of the\n\nprincipal’s best interest. In determining the principal’s best\n\ninterest, the agent shall consider the principal’s personal values\n\nto the extent known to the agent.\n\nF. A health care decision made by an agent for a principal is\n\neffective without judicial approval.\n\nG. A power of attorney for health care shall be signed by the\n\nprincipal in the presence of a notary public or witnessed by two (2)\n\nindividuals who are at least eighteen (18) years of age and who are\n\nnot legatees, devisees, or heirs at law of the principal.\n\nH. A power of attorney for health care is valid for purposes of\n\nthis act if it is in substantial compliance with this act,\n\nregardless of when or where executed or communicated.","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":"428747f83620c42a61f233dabffb5e23619cb1ab4e4677af2eddfe639745c302","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3111.2","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-63-63-3111.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}