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AR Code § 20-16-2306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 16 - Reproductive Health|Subchapter 23 - Perinatal Palliative Care Information Act|§ 20-16-2306. Right of intervention

 The General Assembly by joint resolution may appoint one (1) or more of its members who sponsored or cosponsored this subchapter in his or her official capacity to intervene as a matter of right in any case in which the constitutionality of this subchapter is challenged.
AR Code § 20-17-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-17-101. Death — Legal definition

 (a) An individual is dead who has sustained either:  (1) Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or  (2) Irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem.    (b) A determination of death shall be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
AR Code § 20-17-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-17-103. Notification of death

 Within thirty (30) calendar days after a death certificate is filed pursuant to § 20-18-601, the Division of Vital Records of the Department of Health shall provide notification of the death to the county and circuit court clerks in the county where the deceased was a resident.
AR Code § 20-17-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-17-104. Withholding cardiopulmonary resuscitation in nursing facilities for unwitnessed deaths — Definitions

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) “Dependent lividity” means clear demarcation of pooled blood within the body;  (2) “Nursing facility” means the same as long-term care facility as defined in § 20-10-101; and  (3) “Rigor” means that major joints such as the jaw, shoulders, elbows, hips, or knees are immovable.    (b) Licensed nurses employed by nursing facilities may withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation from residents of the facility, regardless of the presence or absence of a Do Not Resuscitate Order when:  (1) The death of the resident was unwitnessed; and  (2) The body evidences clear and unmistakable:  (A) Dependent lividity; or  (B) Rigor.      (c) In cases of unwitnessed deaths under subsection (b) of this section, the following conditions also must be present:  (1) Respirations are absent for at least thirty (30) seconds;  (2) Carotid pulse is absent for at least thirty (30) seconds;  (3) Lung sounds auscultated by stethoscope bilaterally are absent for at least thirty (30) seconds; and  (4) Both pupils, if accessible, are nonreactive to light.    (d) The nursing facility shall document the presence of the above-listed conditions in the resident's records.  (e)  (1) Nursing facilities and licensed nurses of nursing facilities who withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation under this section are not liable for administrative sanctions, civil damages, or subject to criminal prosecution for their actions or the actions of others based on the withholding of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.  (2) A person who acts in good faith reliance of a nursing facility's or nursing facility employee's withholding cardiopulmonary resuscitation under this section is not liable for administrative sanctions, civil damages, or subject to criminal prosecution for the person's actions.
AR Code § 20-17-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-17-105. Organ donor privacy

 (a) Information regarding the identity of an organ donor is confidential.  (b)  (1) Confidentiality under this section may be waived by an individual who made the anatomical gift before a donor's death under § 20-17-1204 or by an individual who made the anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part under § 20-17-1209.  (2)  (A) If the individual who made the anatomical gift under § 20-17-1204 or § 20-17-1209 is a parent of a minor child who is the organ donor, confidentiality under this section shall not be waived unless both parents agree to waive confidentiality under this section.  (B) If only one (1) parent is living at the time a waiver request is made under this section, the surviving parent may waive confidentiality under this section.
AR Code § 20-17-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-17-106. Authorization to distribute organ and tissue donation information upon death associated with diagnosis of fatal fetal condition

 Upon the death of a fetus diagnosed with a fatal fetal condition which will result in death within three (3) months of birth or upon the death of a child previously diagnosed with a fatal fetal condition, a physician may distribute information regarding organ and tissue donation to the parent or parents of the fetus or child or to the legal guardian of the fetus or child.
AR Code § 20-17-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-201. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Attending physician” means the physician who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient;  (2)  (A) “Declaration” means a writing executed in accordance with the requirements of § 20-17-202(a).  (B) “Declaration” is an advance directive under § 20-6-102;    (3) “Healthcare 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;  (4) “Healthcare proxy” is a person eighteen (18) years old or older appointed by the patient as attorney-in-fact to make healthcare decisions including the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment if a qualified patient, in the opinion of the attending physician, is permanently unconscious, incompetent, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication;  (5) “Life-sustaining treatment” means any medical procedure or intervention that, when administered to a qualified patient, will serve only to prolong the process of dying or to maintain the patient in a condition of permanent unconsciousness;  (6) “Permanently unconscious” means a lasting condition, indefinitely without change in which thought, feeling, sensations, and awareness of self and environment are absent;  (7) “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;  (8) “Physician” means an individual licensed to practice medicine in this state;  (9) “Qualified patient” means a patient eighteen (18) or more years of age who has executed a declaration or appointed a healthcare proxy and who has been determined to be in a terminal condition or in a permanently unconscious state by the attending physician and another qualified physician who has examined the patient;  (10) “State” means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and  (11) “Terminal condition” means an incurable and irreversible condition that, without the administration of life-sustaining treatment, will, in the opinion of the attending physician, result in death within a relatively short time.
AR Code § 20-17-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-203. When declaration operative

 A declaration becomes operative when: (i) it is communicated to the attending physician; and, (ii) the declarant is determined by the attending physician and another physician in consultation either to be in a terminal condition and no longer able to make decisions regarding administration of life-sustaining treatment or to be permanently unconscious. When the declaration becomes operative, the attending physician and other healthcare providers shall act in accordance with its provisions or comply with the transfer provisions of § 20-17-207.
AR Code § 20-17-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-204. Revocation of declaration

 (a)  (1) A declaration may be revoked 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 healthcare provider by the declarant or a witness to the revocation.  (2)  (A) The wishes of a patient who requests nutrition or hydration, or both, shall be honored.  (B) Unless the use of artificial means is specifically requested, a patient's request for nutrition or hydration, or both, shall not be honored by use of artificial means if doing so would require the insertion of any apparatus into the patient's body.      (b) The attending physician or other healthcare provider shall make the revocation a part of the declarant's medical record.
AR Code § 20-17-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-205. Recording determination of terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness and declaration

 Upon determining that the declarant is in a terminal condition or permanently unconscious, the attending physician who knows of a declaration shall record the determination and the terms of the declaration in the declarant's medical record.
AR Code § 20-17-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-206. Treatment of qualified patient

 (a) A qualified patient may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment as long as the patient is able to do so.  (b) This subchapter does not affect the responsibility of the attending physician or other healthcare provider to provide treatment, including nutrition or hydration, or both, for a patient's comfort or alleviation of pain.  (c) The declaration of a qualified patient known to the attending physician to be pregnant must not be given effect as long as it is possible that the fetus could develop to the point of live birth with continued application of life-sustaining treatment.
AR Code § 20-17-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-207. Transfer of patients — Compliance by healthcare provider or healthcare institution

 (a) A declaration under this subchapter is a written advance directive under the Arkansas Healthcare Decisions Act, § 20-6-101 et seq.  (b) The provisions of the Arkansas Healthcare Decisions Act, § 20-6-101 et seq., concerning compliance by a healthcare provider or healthcare institution apply to:  (1) Determine whether an attending physician or other healthcare provider may decline to comply with a declaration executed under this subchapter; and  (2) Any duty to transfer a patient when the attending physician or other healthcare provider declines to comply with a declaration executed under this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-17-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-208. Immunities

 (a) In the absence of knowledge of the revocation of a declaration, a person is not subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct for carrying out the declaration pursuant to the requirements of this subchapter.  (b) A physician or other healthcare provider, whose actions under this subchapter 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.
AR Code § 20-17-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-209. Penalties

 (a) A physician or other healthcare provider who willfully fails to transfer in accordance with § 20-17-207 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (b) A physician who willfully fails to record the determination of terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness in accordance with § 20-17-205 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (c) An individual who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates the declaration of another without the declarant's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the declaration of another is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (d) An individual who falsifies or forges the declaration of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in § 20-17-204, is guilty of a Class D felony.  (e) An individual who requires or prohibits the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, healthcare services is guilty of a Class D felony.  (f) A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a declaration under this subchapter is guilty of a Class D felony.  (g) The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under other law.
AR Code § 20-17-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-210. Miscellaneous provisions

 (a) Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment pursuant to a declaration and in accordance with this subchapter does not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.  (b) The making of a declaration pursuant to § 20-17-202 does not affect in any manner the sale, procurement, or issuance of any policy of life insurance or annuity, nor does it affect, impair, or modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance or annuity. A policy of life insurance or annuity is not legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured qualified patient, notwithstanding any term to the contrary.  (c) A person may not prohibit or require the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, healthcare services.  (d) This subchapter creates no presumption concerning the intention of an individual who has revoked or has not executed a declaration with respect to the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the event of a terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness.  (e) This subchapter does 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 affect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care.  (f) This subchapter does not require any physician or other healthcare provider to take any action contrary to reasonable medical standards.  (g) This subchapter does not condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia.
AR Code § 20-17-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-211. When healthcare provider may presume validity of declaration

 In the absence of knowledge to the contrary, a physician or other healthcare provider may presume that a declaration complies with this subchapter and is valid.
AR Code § 20-17-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-212. Recognition of declaration executed in another state

 A declaration executed in another state in compliance with the law of that state or of this state is validly executed for purposes of this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-17-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-213. Effect of previous declaration

 An instrument executed before July 20, 1987, which substantially complies with § 20-17-202(a) must be given effect pursuant to the provision of this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-17-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-214. Who may execute written request for another

 (a) If any person is a minor or an adult where a valid declaration does not exist and a healthcare proxy has not been designated and who, in the opinion of the attending physician, is no longer able to make healthcare decisions, then the declaration may be executed in the same form on his or her behalf by the first of the following individuals or category of individuals who exist and are reasonably available for consultation:  (1) A legal guardian of the patient, if one has been appointed;  (2) In the case of an unmarried patient under the age of eighteen (18), the parents of the patient;  (3) The patient's spouse;  (4) The patient's adult child or, if there is more than one (1), then a majority of the patient's adult children participating in the decision;  (5) The parents of a patient over the age of eighteen (18);  (6) The patient's adult sibling or, if there is more than one (1), then a majority of the patient's adult siblings participating in the decision;  (7) Persons standing in loco parentis to the patient; or  (8) A majority of the patient's adult heirs at law who participate in the decision.    (b)  (1) Even if an advance directive that includes a directive to withhold nutrition or hydration, or both, is signed by a person under this section, if the terminally ill patient requests nutrition or hydration, his or her wishes shall be honored.  (2) Unless the use of artificial means is specifically requested, a patient's request for nutrition or hydration, or both, shall not be honored by use of artificial means if doing so would require the insertion of any apparatus into the patient's body.
AR Code § 20-17-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-215. Short title

 This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act”.
AR Code § 20-17-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-216. Severability

 If any provision of this subchapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this subchapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the provisions of this subchapter are severable.
AR Code § 20-17-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-217. Effective date

 This subchapter takes effect on July 20, 1987.
AR Code § 20-17-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Rights of the Terminally Ill or Permanently Unconscious Act|§ 20-17-218. Repeal

 The following acts and parts of acts are repealed:   (1) Acts 1977, No. 879; and  (2) All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-17-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 3 - Postmortems|§ 20-17-301. Subchapter cumulative

 This subchapter is cumulative and does not alter or repeal any law or laws in effect before June 9, 1955.
AR Code § 20-17-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 3 - Postmortems|§ 20-17-302. Consent

 (a) Consent for a licensed physician to conduct a postmortem examination on the body of a deceased person shall be deemed sufficient when given by the deceased, if in writing, and signed and acknowledged before his or her death or when given by whichever one (1) of the following assumes custody of the body for purposes of burial:  (1) Father;  (2) Mother;  (3) Husband;  (4) Wife;  (5) Child;  (6) Guardian;  (7) Next of kin; or  (8) In the absence of any of the persons listed in subdivisions (a)(1)-(7) of this section, a friend or a person charged by law with the responsibility for burial.    (b) If two (2) or more such persons assume custody of the body, consent of one (1) of them shall be deemed sufficient.
AR Code § 20-17-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead|Subchapter 3 - Postmortems|§ 20-17-303. Disposition of body

 After the examination has been completed, the dead body shall be delivered to the relatives or friends of the deceased person for burial.