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63 OK Stat § 63-3101.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.3. Definitions.

|As used in the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act: |1. "Advance directive for health care" means any writing executed in accordance with the requirements of Section 3101.4 of this title and may include a living will, the appointment of a health care proxy, or both such living will and appointment of a proxy;2. "Attending physician" means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient;3. "Declarant" means any individual who has issued an advance directive according to the procedure provided for in Section 3101.4 of this title;4. “End-stage condition” means a condition caused by injury, disease, or illness, which results in severe and permanent deterioration indicated by incompetency and complete physical dependency for which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, treatment of the irreversible condition would be medically ineffective;5. "Health care provider" means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the law of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession;6. "Health care proxy" is an individual eighteen (18) years old or older appointed by the declarant as attorney-in-fact to make health care decisions including, but not limited to, the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment if a qualified patient, in the opinion of the attending physician and another physician, is persistently unconscious, incompetent, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication;7. "Persistently unconscious" means an irreversible condition, as determined by the attending physician and another physician, in which thought and awareness of self and environment are absent;8. "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity;9. "Physician" means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state;10. "Qualified patient" means a patient eighteen (18) years of age or older who has executed an advance directive and who has been determined to be incapable of making an informed decision regarding health care, including the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, by the attending physician and another physician who have examined the patient;11. "State" means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and12. "Terminal condition" means an incurable and irreversible condition that, even with the administration of life-sustaining treatment, will, in the opinion of the attending physician and another physician, result in death within six (6) months.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 5, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.5. Advance directive - When and which become operative.

|A. An advance directive becomes operative when: |1. It is communicated to the attending physician; and2. The declarant is no longer able to make decisions regarding administration of life-sustaining treatment. When the advance directive becomes operative, the attending physician and other health care providers shall act in accordance with its provisions or comply with the provisions of Section 9 of this act.B. In the event more than one valid advance directive has been executed and not revoked, the last advance directive so executed shall be construed to be the last wishes of the declarant and shall become operative pursuant to subsection A of this section.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.6. Advance directive - Revocation.

|A. An advance directive may be revoked in whole or in part at any time and in any manner by the declarant, without regard to the declarant's mental or physical condition. A revocation is effective upon communication to the attending physician or other health care provider by the declarant or a witness to the revocation. |B. The attending physician or other health care provider shall make the revocation a part of the declarant's medical record.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.7. Qualified patient - Determination - Record.

|The determination of the attending physician and another physician that the patient is a qualified patient shall become a part of the patient's medical record. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 7, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.8. Patient's right to make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment - Patient's comfort and alleviation of pain - Pregnant patient.

|A. A patient may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment as long as the patient is able to do so. |B. Even if life-sustaining treatment or artificial administration of nutrition and hydration are withheld or withdrawn, the patient shall be provided with medication or other medical treatment to alleviate pain and will be provided with oral consumption of food and water.C. If a qualified patient has been diagnosed as pregnant and that diagnosis is known to the attending physician, the pregnant patient shall be provided with life-sustaining treatment and artificially administered hydration and nutrition, unless the patient has specifically authorized, in her own words, that during a course of pregnancy, life-sustaining treatment and/or artificially administered hydration and/or nutrition shall be withheld or withdrawn. If it is not known if the patient is pregnant, the said physician shall, where appropriate considering age and other relevant factors, determine whether or not the patient is pregnant.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 7, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.9. Physician or health care provider unwilling to comply with act.

|An attending physician or other health care provider who is unwilling to comply with the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall as promptly as practicable take all reasonable steps to arrange care of the declarant by another physician or health care provider when the declarant becomes a qualified patient. Once a patient has established a physician-patient relationship with a physician or a provider-patient relationship with another health care provider, if the physician or other health care provider refuses to comply with a medical treatment decision made by or on behalf of the patient pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act, or with a medical treatment decision made by such a patient who has decision-making capacity, and if the refusal would in reasonable medical judgment be likely to result in the death of the patient, then the physician or other health care provider must comply with the medical treatment decision pending the completion of the transfer of the patient to a physician or health care provider willing to comply with the decision. Nothing in this section shall require the provision of treatment if the physician or other health care provider is physically or legally unable to provide or is physically or legally unable to provide without thereby denying the same treatment to another patient. Nothing in this section may be construed to alter any legal obligation or lack of legal obligation of a physician or other health care provider to provide medical treatment, nutrition, or hydration to a patient who refuses or is unable to pay for them. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 99, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 164, § 1, emerg. eff. April 28, 1998; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 8, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.10. Civil and criminal liability and disciplinary actions.

|A. In the absence of knowledge of the revocation of an advance directive, a person is not subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct for carrying out the advance directive pursuant to the requirements of the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act. |B. A physician or other health care provider, whose actions under the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act are in accord with reasonable medical standards, is not subject to criminal or civil liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct with respect to those actions; provided, that this subsection may not be construed to authorize a violation of Section 3101.9 of this title. In making decisions and determinations pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act the physician shall use his or her best judgment applying with ordinary care and diligence the knowledge and skill that is possessed and used by members of the physician’s profession in good standing engaged in the same field of practice at that time, measured by national standards.C. An individual designated as a health care proxy, pursuant to Section 3101.4 of this title, to make health care decisions for a declarant and whose decisions regarding the declarant are made in good faith pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act, is not subject to criminal or civil liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct with respect to those decisions.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 99, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 9, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.11. Acts constituting unprofessional conduct - Acts constituting felonies - Sanctions.

|A. A physician or other health care provider who willfully fails to arrange the care of a patient in accordance with Section 3101.9 of this title shall be guilty of unprofessional conduct. |B. A physician who willfully fails to record the determination of the patient's condition in accordance with Section 3101.7 of this title shall be guilty of unprofessional conduct.C. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, alters, or obliterates the advance directive of another without the declarant's consent, or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the advance directive of another shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.D. A person who in any way falsifies or forges the advance directive of another, or who willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in Section 3101.6 of this title shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.E. A person who requires or prohibits the execution of an advance directive as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care services shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.F. A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute an advance directive or revocation shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.G. The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under other law.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 10, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.12. Interpretation, construction and application of act.

|A. Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide. |B. The making of an advance directive pursuant to Section 3101.4 of this title shall not affect in any manner the sale, procurement, or issuance of any policy of life insurance or annuity, nor shall it affect, impair, or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance or annuity. A policy of life insurance or annuity shall not be legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured qualified patient, regardless of any term of the policy or annuity to the contrary.C. A person shall not prohibit or require the execution of an advance directive as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care services.D. The Oklahoma Advance Directive Act creates no presumption concerning the intention of an individual who has revoked or has not executed an advance directive with respect to the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.E. The Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall not affect the right of a patient to make decisions regarding use of life-sustaining treatment, so long as the patient is able to do so, or impair or supersede any right or responsibility that a person has to effect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care; provided, that this subsection may not be construed to authorize a violation of Section 3101.9 of this title.F. The Oklahoma Advance Directive Act shall not be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing, assisted suicide, or euthanasia.G. Failure to designate a health care proxy in accordance with Section 3101.4 of this title shall not be interpreted to invalidate the authority of a health care proxy to make life-sustaining treatment decisions if otherwise authorized by law.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 12, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 99, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 11, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.13. Presumption of validity of advance directive.

|In the absence of knowledge to the contrary, a physician or other health care provider may presume that an advance directive complies with the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act and is valid. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 12, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.14 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.14. Directives executed out-of-state.

|Execution of an advance directive by an individual, which provides for the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for that individual or for the appointment of another to give directions to provide, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatment, executed in another state in compliance with the law of that state or of this state is valid for purposes of the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act to the extent the advance directive does not exceed authorizations allowed under the laws of this state; provided, that no such advance directive shall be deemed to authorize the withholding or withdrawal of artificially administered nutrition and/or hydration unless it specifically authorizes such withholding or withdrawal of artificially administered nutrition and/or hydration, and either the advance directive: |1. Was executed by a person who was not a resident of Oklahoma at the time of execution; or2. Specifically authorizes the withholding or withdrawal of artificially administered nutrition and/or hydration in the declarant’s own words or by a separate section, separate paragraph, or other separate subdivision that deals only with nutrition and/or hydration and which section, paragraph, or other subdivision is separately initialed, separately signed, or otherwise separately marked by the person executing the advance directive.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 13, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.15 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.15. Directives executed prior to change in law.

|A. Any directive to a physician executed pursuant to the former Oklahoma Natural Death Act, 63 O.S. 1991, Section 3101 et seq., which was executed prior to September 1, 1992, shall be enforceable according to its terms until revoked and shall have the same force and effect as if made pursuant to this act. Such directive shall be binding on the attending physician whether or not the person who executed the directive was in a terminal condition at the time of execution unless there is evidence that the person executing the directive intended that it should be binding only if executed or re-executed after the person became afflicted with a terminal condition as defined by the former Oklahoma Natural Death Act. |B. Any advance directive executed prior to the enactment of any amendment to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act which substantially complied with the law in effect at the time of the execution of the directive shall be enforceable according to its terms until revoked and shall have the same force and effect as if made pursuant to this act, as amended.Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 15, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 99, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 14, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3101.16 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3101.16. Treatment decisions to be based on known intentions, personal views and best interests of declarant.

|An individual making life-sustaining treatment decisions pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act for a declarant shall make such decisions based on the known intentions, personal views and best interests of the declarant. If evidence of the declarant's wishes is sufficient, those wishes shall control. If there is not sufficient evidence of the wishes of the declarant, the decisions shall be based on the reasonable judgment of the individual so deciding about the values of the declarant and what the wishes of the declarant would be based upon those values. |Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 15, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 OK Stat § 63-3102.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3102.1. Advance directives registry database.

|A. The State Department of Health shall establish and maintain an advance directives registry which shall be accessible through a website maintained by the Department. The registry shall be used to store advance directives pursuant to the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act that are filed with the registry by or with the authorization of those executing the advance directives. |B. The registry shall be maintained in a secure database that is designed to provide access to each advance directive filed in the database by the person who executed the advance directive, those named as agents in the advance directive, any person related within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity to the person who executed the advance directive, or a health care provider caring for the person who executed the advance directive.C. The State Department of Health may enter into contracts with private vendors to obtain the services necessary to meet the requirements of the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act. Any costs to the public to access the registry shall be negotiated in the contracts provided for in this paragraph.Added by Laws 2009, c. 236, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 43, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
63 OK Stat § 63-3102.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3102.2. Advance directive forms database.

|A. The State Department of Health shall maintain a website of advance directive forms that may be downloaded for printing and into word processing programs. |B. Under the heading "Statutory Advance Directive Form", the website shall include the forms specified in subsection C of Section 3101.4 of this title.C. Under the heading "Alternative Advance Directive Forms", the website shall include other advance directive forms submitted to the Department by individuals and groups in an electronic format the Department shall specify; provided, that before being posted on the website, any such form shall be reviewed to ensure that the form complies with the requirements of Section 3101.4 of this title and other provisions of state law.D. In the section titled "Alternative Advance Directive Forms", the website shall prominently post the following disclaimer:"This website includes for your consideration alternative advance directive forms submitted by individuals or groups reflecting different perspectives on advance health care decisions which you may wish to review before completing your own advance directive. Although they have been reviewed to ensure that they do not violate Oklahoma law, neither the State Department of Health nor the State of Oklahoma endorses or assumes any responsibility for any of these forms."E. The State Department of Health shall promulgate rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act.Added by Laws 2009, c. 236, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2009. Amended by Laws 2015, c. 43, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.
63 OK Stat § 63-3102.3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3102.3. Patient disclosure relating to advanced directives forms and registry.

|A. The State Department of Health shall prepare, and from time to time amend, a disclosure statement designed to inform patients of the availability of the advance directive forms on the Department’s website and of the option of filing executed advance directives with the Department’s advance directives registry. The Department shall make the current disclosure statement available on the Department’s website and shall inform the entities specified in subsection B of this section of the availability of the disclosure statement and how to obtain the disclosure statement. |B. Any entity to which the requirements of 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f) or of 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w) apply shall, at the time of providing the written information required by 42 U.S.C., Section 1395cc(f)(1)(A)(i) or 42 U.S.C., Section 1396a(w)(1)(A)(i), include a copy of the disclosure statement described in subsection A of this section.Added by Laws 2009, c. 236, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.
63 OK Stat § 63-3102.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-3102.5. Persons not authorized to make health care decisions.

|A. No person shall be authorized under Section 3102.4 of this title to make health care decisions for a patient if that person: |1. Has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or pled no contest to any violation of Section 843.1, 843.2, 843.4 or 843.5 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes;2. Has been found to have committed abuse, verbal abuse or exploitation, as these terms are defined in Section 10-103 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, by a final State Department of Health or Department of Human Services investigative finding or by an administrative law judge finding, unless that finding has been overturned through judicial review; or3. Has been criminally charged as described in subsection B of Section 10-110.1 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, unless the person has been acquitted or those charges have been finally dismissed.B. No health care provider or health care entity shall be liable for following in good faith the instructions of a person otherwise authorized to make health care decisions for a patient and who has submitted the statement as required by Section 3102.4 of this title, but whom the health care provider or health care entity does not know or have reason to know is disqualified from exercising such authority by subsection A of this section.Added by Laws 2017, c. 144, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2017. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 211, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.