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CO Code § 15-18-103 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-103. Definitions

 As used in this article 18, unless the context otherwise requires:    “Adult” means any person eighteen years of age or older.    “Advanced practice nurse” means a nurse who is included in the advanced practice registry pursuant to section 12-255-111.    “Artificial nutrition and hydration” means:   Nutrition or hydration supplied through a tube inserted into the stomach or intestines; or    Nutrients or fluids injected intravenously into the bloodstream.       “Attending physician” means the physician, whether selected by or assigned to a patient, who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.    “Court” means the district court of the county in which a declarant having a terminal condition or in a persistent vegetative state is located at the time of commencement of a proceeding pursuant to this article or, if in the city and county of Denver, the probate court.    “Decisional capacity” means the ability to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment or the ability to make an informed health-care benefit decision.    “Declarant” means an adult possessing decisional capacity who executes a declaration.    “Declaration” means a written document voluntarily executed by a declarant in accordance with the requirements of section 15-18-104.    “Hospital” means an institution holding a license or certificate of compliance as a hospital issued by the department of public health and environment and includes hospitals operated by the federal government in Colorado.    “Life-sustaining procedure” means any medical procedure or intervention that, if administered to a qualified patient, would serve only to prolong the dying process, and shall not include any medical procedure or intervention for nourishment of the qualified patient or considered necessary by the attending physician or advanced practice nurse to provide comfort or alleviate pain.    “Persistent vegetative state” is defined by reference to the criteria and definitions employed by prevailing community medical standards of practice.    “Physician” means a person duly licensed under the provisions of article 240 of title 12.    “Qualified patient” means a patient who has executed a declaration in accordance with this article and who has been certified by his or her attending physician and one other physician to have a terminal condition or be in a persistent vegetative state.    “Terminal condition” means an incurable or irreversible condition for which the administration of life-sustaining procedures will serve only to prolong the dying process.     History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 376, § 1, effective August 11. L. 2019: IP, (2), and (12) amended, (HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1670, § 81, effective October 1.
CO Code § 15-18-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-105. Inability of Declarant to Sign

  In the event that the declarant is physically unable to sign the declaration, it may be signed by some other person in the declarant's presence and at the declarant's direction. The other person shall not be:   The attending physician or any other physician;    An employee of the attending physician or health-care facility in which the declarant is a patient;    A person who has a claim against any portion of the estate of the declarant at his or her death at the time the declaration is signed; or    A person who knows or believes that he or she is entitled to any portion of the estate of the declarant upon the declarant's death either as a beneficiary of a will in existence at the time the declaration is signed or as an heir at law.        History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 379, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 15-18-106 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-106. Witnessed or Notarized Declaration

  Except as otherwise provided in section 15-18-105, a declaration must be:   Signed by the declarant in the presence of two witnesses; or    Signed by the declarant and acknowledged before a notary public or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments, unless a court determines that this subsection (1)(b) should not apply to the declaration in the interest of justice.       For the purposes of this section, a person specified in section 15-18-105 shall not be a witness, notary public, or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments.     History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE,(HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 379, § 1, effective August 11. L. 2021: Entire section amended,(SB 21-195), ch. 115, p. 447, § 1, effective May 7.    Editor's note:   Section 4 of chapter 115 (SB 21-195), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to declarations and records executed before, on, or after May 7, 2021.
CO Code § 15-18-107 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-107. Withdrawal - Withholding of Life-Sustaining Procedures

 In the event that an attending physician is presented with an unrevoked declaration executed by a declarant whom the physician believes has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state, and lacks decisional capacity to accept or reject medical or surgical treatment, the attending physician shall order the declarant to be examined by one other physician. If both physicians find that the declarant has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state, and lacks decisional capacity to accept or reject medical or surgical treatment, they shall certify such fact in writing and enter such in the qualified patient's medical record of the hospital in which the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or artificial nutrition and hydration may occur, together with a copy of the declaration. If the attending physician has actual knowledge of the whereabouts of either the qualified patient's agent under a medical power of attorney or, without regard to order, the patient's spouse, a person designated under the “Colorado Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act”, as described in article 22 of this title, any of his or her adult children, a parent, sibling, or any other person designated in writing by the qualified patient, the attending physician shall immediately make a reasonable effort to notify at least one of said persons that a certificate has been signed. If no action to challenge the validity of a declaration has been filed within forty-eight hours after the certification is made by the physicians, the attending physician shall then withdraw or withhold all life-sustaining procedures or artificial nutrition and hydration pursuant to the terms of the declaration.   History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 379, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 15-18-109 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-109. Revocation of Declaration

 A declaration may be revoked by the declarant orally, in writing, or by burning, tearing, canceling, obliterating, or destroying said declaration.   History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 381, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 15-18-110 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-110. Liability

  With respect to any declaration that appears on its face to have been executed in accordance with the requirements of this article:   Any physician or advanced practice nurse may act in compliance with such declaration in the absence of actual notice of revocation, fraud, misrepresentation, or improper execution;    A physician who signs a certificate withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining procedures in compliance with a declaration shall not be subject to civil liability, criminal penalty, or licensing sanctions therefor;    A hospital or person acting under the direction of a physician and participating in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures in compliance with a declaration shall not be subject to civil liability, criminal penalty, or licensing sanctions therefor; and    An advanced practice nurse who withholds or withdraws life-sustaining procedures in compliance with a declaration shall not be subject to civil liability, criminal penalty, or licensing sanctions therefor.        History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE,(HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 381, § 1, effective August 11.    Cross references:   For other circumstances under which physicians are not subject to civil or criminal liability, see §§ 13-21-108 and 13-22-106 .
CO Code § 15-18-111 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-111. Determination of Suicide or Homicide - Effect of Declaration on Insurance

 The withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a qualified patient pursuant to this article shall not, for any purpose, constitute a suicide or a homicide. The existence of a declaration shall not affect, impair, or modify any contract of life insurance or annuity or be the basis for any delay in issuing or refusing to issue an annuity or policy of life insurance or any increase of the premium therefor. No insurer or provider of health care shall require any person to execute a declaration as a condition of being insured for or receiving health-care services, nor shall the failure to execute a declaration be the basis for any increased or additional premium for a contract or policy for medical or health insurance.   History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 381, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 15-18-112 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-112. Application of Article

  Nothing in this article shall be construed as altering or amending the standards of the practice of medicine or nursing or establishing any presumption, absent a valid declaration, nor as condoning, authorizing, or approving euthanasia or mercy killing, nor as permitting any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life, except to permit natural death as provided in this article. Nothing in this article shall require the provision or continuation of medical treatment contrary to the standards of the practice of medicine.    A diagnosis of persistent vegetative state shall be performed by a qualified medical professional according to standards of the practice of medicine. Nothing in this article shall be interpreted to define “persistent vegetative state” in contradiction of standards of the practice of medicine.    In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this article, or a declaration executed under this article, and the provisions of section 15-14-501, the provisions of this article and the declaration shall prevail.    Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of this section, a declarant may include within the declaration or within any power of attorney executed by the declarant a written statement to the effect that the agent under power of attorney may override the provisions of the declaration.     History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 381, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 15-18-113 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18 - Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act|§ 15-18-113. Penalties - Refusal - Transfer

  [ ] A person who willfully conceals, defaces, damages, or destroys a declaration of another person, without the knowledge and consent of the declarant, commits a class 1 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S.    A person who falsifies or forges a declaration of another person commits a class 5 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S.    If a person falsifies or forges a declaration of another person and the terms of the declaration are carried out, resulting in the death of the purported declarant, the person commits a class 2 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401, C.R.S.    [ ] A person who willfully withholds information concerning the revocation of a declaration of another person commits a class 1 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S.    An attending physician or advanced practice nurse who refuses to comply with the terms of a declaration valid on its face shall transfer the care of the declarant to another physician or advanced practice nurse who is willing to comply with the declaration. Refusal of an attending physician or advanced practice nurse to comply with a declaration and failure to transfer the care of the declarant to another physician or advanced practice nurse shall constitute unprofessional conduct as defined in section 12-240-121 or grounds for discipline pursuant to section 12-255-120.    Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective until March 1, 2022.  (1) [ ] A person who willfully conceals, defaces, damages, or destroys a declaration of another person, without the knowledge and consent of the declarant, commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501 .  Editor's note: This version of subsection (1) is effective March 1, 2022. Editor's note: This version of subsection (4) is effective until March 1, 2022.  (4) [ ] A person who willfully withholds information concerning the revocation of a declaration of another person commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501 .  Editor's note: This version of subsection (4) is effective March 1, 2022.  History. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE,(HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 382, § 1, effective August 11; (5) amended,(HB 10-1422), ch. 419, p. 2126, § 189, effective August 11. L. 2019: (5) amended,(HB 19-1172), ch. 136, p. 1670, § 82, effective October 1. L. 2021: (1) and (4) amended,(SB 21-271), ch. 462, p. 3159, § 162, effective March 1, 2022.    Editor's note:   Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.
CO Code § 15-18.5-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18.5 - Proxy and Surrogate Decision-Makers for Medical Treatment and Health Care Benefit Decisions|§ 15-18.5-101. Legislative Declaration - Construction of Statute

  The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that:   All adult persons have a fundamental right to make their own medical treatment and health-care benefit decisions, including decisions regarding medical treatment, artificial nourishment and hydration, and private or public health-care benefits;    The lack of decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment should not preclude such decisions from being made on behalf of a person who lacks such decisional capacity and who has no known advance medical directive, or whose wishes are not otherwise known; and    The enactment of legislation to authorize proxy decision-makers to make medical treatment decisions and surrogate decision-makers to make health-care benefit decisions on behalf of persons lacking the decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment is appropriate.       The general assembly does not intend to encourage or discourage any particular medical treatment or to interfere with or affect any method of religious or spiritual healing otherwise permitted by law.    Nothing in this article shall be construed as condoning, authorizing, or approving euthanasia or mercy killing. In addition, the general assembly does not intend that this article be construed as permitting any affirmative or deliberate act to end a person's life, except to permit natural death as provided by this article.     History. Source: L. 92: Entire article added, p. 1984, § 3, effective June 4. L. 2006: (1)(a) and (1)(c) amended, p. 841, § 3, effective May 4.
CO Code § 15-18.5-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18.5 - Proxy and Surrogate Decision-Makers for Medical Treatment and Health Care Benefit Decisions|§ 15-18.5-102. Definitions Applicable to Medical Durable Power of Attorney - Applicability

  The definitions set forth in section 15-14-505 shall apply to the provisions of this article.    The provisions of sections 15-14-506 to 15-14-509 shall apply to this article. In addition, proxy decision-makers, surrogate decision-makers for health-care benefits, health-care providers, and health-care facilities shall be subject to the provisions of this article.     History. Source: L. 92: Entire article added, p. 1985, § 3, effective June 4. L. 2006: (2) amended, p. 841, § 4, effective May 4.
CO Code § 15-18.5-105 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18.5 - Proxy and Surrogate Decision-Makers for Medical Treatment and Health Care Benefit Decisions|§ 15-18.5-105. Statutory Form for Certificate of Appointment of Surrogate Decision-Makers for Health-Care Benefits

 The following statutory form for certificate of appointment of surrogate decision-maker for health-care benefits is legally sufficient:    CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT OF A SURROGATE DECISION-MAKER FOR HEALTH-CARE BENEFITS (1) I, , the attending physician, certify that lacks the decisional capacity to make health-care benefit decisions. I further certify that I have made the necessary documentation to the medical record. (name of attending physician) (name of person for whom decisions are being made) (2) I, , the attending physician or designee, hereby appoint , as the surrogate decision-maker for health-care benefits on behalf of , pursuant to (name of attending physician) (name of surrogate) (driver's license number or state ID number) (name of person for whom decisions are being made) (address, city, state) section 15-18.5-104 , C.R.S. (3) shall have access to all necessary personal health information as defined by the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and any financial information necessary to make appropriate health-care benefit decisions on behalf of , as provided for in shall make such decisions in the best interests of. (Name of surrogate) (name of person for whom decisions are being made) section 15-18.5-104 , C.R.S. (Name of surrogate) (name of person for whom decisions are being made) Executed this day of , . (Attending physician) (Business address) (Business phone) (Business fax)   History. Source: L. 2006: Entire section added, p. 841, § 5, effective May 4.
CO Code § 15-18.6-101 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18.6 - Directive Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation|§ 15-18.6-101. Definitions

 As used in this article 18.6, unless the context otherwise requires:    “Cardiopulmonary resuscitation” or “CPR” means measures to restore cardiac function or to support breathing in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest or malfunction. “CPR” includes, but is not limited to, chest compression, delivering electric shock to the chest, or placing tubes in the airway to assist breathing.    “CPR directive” means an advance medical directive pertaining to the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.    “Emergency medical service personnel” means an emergency medical service provider at any level who is certified or licensed by the department of public health and environment. “Emergency medical service personnel” includes an emergency medical responder registered by the department of public health and environment in accordance with section 25-3.5-1103.     History. Source: L. 92: Entire article added, p. 1988, § 3, effective June 4. L. 94: (3) amended, p. 2731, § 350, effective July 1. L. 2002: (3) amended, p. 1211, § 7, effective June 3. L. 2012: (3) amended,(HB 12-1059), ch. 271, p. 1433, § 9, effective July 1; (3) amended,(HB 12-1283), ch. 240, p. 1131, § 37, effective July 1. L. 2019: IP and (3) amended,(SB 19-242), ch. 396, p. 3526, § 8, effective May 31.    Editor's note:   Amendments to subsection (3) by House Bill 12-1059 and House Bill 12-1283 were harmonized.   Cross references:   For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsection (3), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994. For the legislative declaration in the 2012 act amending subsection (3), see section 1 of chapter 240, Session Laws of Colorado 2012.
CO Code § 15-18.6-102 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 15 - Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries|Article 18.6 - Directive Relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation|§ 15-18.6-102. Cpr Directives for Cpr - Who May Execute

 Any adult over age eighteen who has the decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment or any other person who is, pursuant to the laws of this state or any other state, authorized to make medical treatment decisions on behalf of an adult who lacks such decisional capacity, may execute a CPR directive. After a physician issues a “do not resuscitate” order for a minor child, and only then, may the parents of the minor, if married and living together, the custodial parent or parent with decision-making responsibility for such a decision, or the legal guardian execute a CPR directive.   History. Source: L. 92: Entire article added, p. 1988, § 3, effective June 4. L. 94: Entire section amended, p. 1058, § 1, effective May 4. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 1402, § 54, effective February 1, 1999.    ANNOTATION   Morgan county department of human services, acting as guardian, is a “person” authorized to execute a “do not resuscitate” order on behalf of an incapacitated person. People ex rel. Yeager, 93 P.3d 589 (Colo. App. 2004).