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MT Code § 50-9-205 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 2. Effect on Health Care -- Rights and Duties|50-9-205. Effect on insurance -- patient's decision

  50-9-205. Effect on insurance -- patient's decision. (1) Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in accordance with this chapter does not constitute, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.   (2) The making of a declaration pursuant to 50-9-103 does not affect 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. A policy of life insurance is not legally impaired or invalidated by the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an insured, notwithstanding any term of the policy to the contrary.   (3) A person may not prohibit or require the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.   (4) This chapter does not create a 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.   (5) This chapter 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 a right or responsibility that any person has to effect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care.   (6) This chapter does not require a health care provider to take action contrary to reasonable medical standards.   (7) This chapter does not condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia.   History: En. Sec. 10, Ch. 369, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 9, Ch. 391, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 11, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-9-206 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 2. Effect on Health Care -- Rights and Duties|50-9-206. Penalties

  50-9-206. Penalties. (1) A health care provider who willfully fails to transfer the care of a patient in accordance with 50-9-203 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (2) A physician or advanced practice registered nurse who willfully fails to record the determination of terminal condition or the terms of a declaration in accordance with 50-9-201 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (3) An individual who purposely 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 misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (4) An individual who falsifies or forges the declaration of another individual or purposely conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in 50-9-104 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (5) A person who requires or prohibits the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care service is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (6) A person who coerces or fraudulently induces an individual to execute a declaration is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (7) The penalties provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under other law.   History: En. Sec. 9, Ch. 369, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 391, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-9-501 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry|50-9-501. Health care declaration registry -- website -- rulemaking

  50-9-501. Health care declaration registry -- website -- rulemaking. (1) The attorney general shall establish and maintain a health care declaration registry.   (2) The registry must be accessible through a website maintained by the attorney general.   (3) The registry must be used to store declarations pertaining to life-sustaining treatment made pursuant to 50-9-103 that are filed with the attorney general.   (4) The registry must be maintained in a secure database that is designed to provide authorized health care providers with immediate access to the registry at all times.   (5) The attorney general may adopt rules to implement the creation and maintenance of a health care declaration registry and for the creation and maintenance of the statewide education and outreach program created in 50-9-505.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 447, L. 2005.
MT Code § 50-9-502 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry|50-9-502. Health care declaration registry filing provisions -- special revenue fund -- failure to file declaration or notify of revocation -- duty of health care providers to access registry

  50-9-502. Health care declaration registry filing provisions -- special revenue fund -- failure to file declaration or notify of revocation -- duty of health care providers to access registry. (1) An individual or a person designated by the individual may file with the attorney general, for entry into the health care declaration registry, a declaration provided for in 50-9-103 that pertains to life-sustaining treatment.   (2) (a) The attorney general may accept gifts, grants, donations, bequests, and other forms of voluntary contributions to support, promote, and maintain the registry.   (b) There is a health care declaration account in the state special revenue fund. Money received pursuant to subsection (2)(a) and any money transferred from the general fund to the health care declaration registry must be deposited in the account and must be used by the attorney general to create and maintain the health care declaration registry and to create and maintain an education and outreach program for the public regarding advance health care planning and end-of-life health care decisionmaking.   (3) (a) Failure to file the declaration with the attorney general does not affect the validity of the declaration.   (b) Failure to notify the attorney general of a revocation of the declaration made pursuant to 50-9-104, does not affect the validity of the revocation.   (4) A health care provider is not required to access the registry in order to determine if a qualified patient has filed a declaration with the attorney general.   History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 447, L. 2005.
MT Code § 50-9-503 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry|50-9-503. Entry of declaration into health care declaration registry -- removal of declaration

  50-9-503. Entry of declaration into health care declaration registry -- removal of declaration. (1) Upon receipt of a declaration pertaining to life-sustaining treatment, the attorney general shall determine if the declaration is in compliance with the provisions of 50-9-103. If the declaration is not in compliance with the provisions of 50-9-103, the attorney general shall return the declaration together with a statement that the declaration was not filed due to its nonconformance with the requirements of 50-9-103.   (2) (a) If a declaration is accepted for filing, the attorney general shall create a digital copy of the declaration and enter it into the database of the health care declaration registry.   (b) The attorney general shall assign a unique access code to each individual who files a declaration that may be used by that individual or by a health care provider in a case in which the individual becomes a qualified patient to access the registry to view the filed declaration.   (c) (i) After entering the digital copy of the declaration in the registry, the attorney general shall return to the individual filing the declaration the original declaration along with two wallet-sized cards that indicate that a copy of the declaration exists in the registry and that the name and access code on the cards may be used to access the registry to view an electronic copy of the declaration.   (ii) (A) In addition to the materials provided to an individual filing a declaration under subsection (2)(c)(i), the attorney general shall include a form asking the individual filing the declaration to indicate on the form the privacy level that the individual desires with respect to accessing the declaration and asking the individual to return the form to the attorney general.   (B) An individual shall choose between two privacy levels. The standard privacy level allows access by the individual filing the declaration, appropriate health care providers, anyone with the name and access code, and anyone with the social security number, birth date, and mother's maiden name of the individual who filed the declaration. The higher privacy level allows access only by the individual filing the declaration, appropriate health care providers, and anyone with the name and access code. If a form indicating a choice of privacy level is not returned to the attorney general, the attorney general shall use the standard privacy level in determining access to a declaration.   (3) If the attorney general receives a notice of the revocation of a declaration that is contained in the health care declaration registry or is notified that a person who is the subject of a declaration filed in the registry is deceased, the attorney general shall remove that declaration from the registry.   History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 447, L. 2005.
MT Code § 50-9-504 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry|50-9-504. Registry information -- confidentiality -- transfer of information

  50-9-504. Registry information -- confidentiality -- transfer of information. (1) The health care declaration registry must be designed to be accessible only by entering a name and access code on the internet website maintained by the attorney general or by the use of a password issued pursuant to subsection (3).   (2) Names and access codes are confidential and may not be disclosed to any person other than the person who submitted the declaration, a person named in the declaration, or a health care provider for whom the person named in the declaration is a qualified patient.   (3) (a) The attorney general shall issue confidential passwords to attending physicians, attending advanced practice registered nurses, and hospital medical records department staff that allow them to search the health care declaration database for a qualified patient who is unable to communicate health care choices.   (b) The attorney general shall establish by rule procedures for applying for and the issuance of confidential passwords to those persons described in subsection (3)(a).   (4) At the request of a person who submitted a declaration or who is named in the declaration, the attorney general may transmit the information received regarding the declaration to the registry system of another jurisdiction as identified by the requestor.   History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 447, L. 2005.
MT Code § 50-9-505 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 9. Rights of the Terminally Ill Act|Part 5. Health Care Declaration Registry|50-9-505. Statewide education and outreach program

  50-9-505. Statewide education and outreach program. (1) The attorney general shall design, maintain, and administer a public education and outreach program to be conducted throughout the state pertaining to advance health care planning and end-of-life health care decisionmaking.   (2) The program must be designed to:   (a) increase the public's awareness of the importance of planning for end-of-life health care;   (b) improve the public's understanding of the various health situations that an individual may face if the individual is unable to express the individual's health care wishes; and   (c) explain the need for readily available legal documents that express an individual's health care wishes.   History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 447, L. 2005.
MT Code § 50-10-101 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-101. Definitions

  50-10-101. Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:   (1) "Advanced practice registered nurse" means an individual who is licensed under Title 37, chapter 8, to practice professional nursing in this state and who has fulfilled the requirements of the board of nursing pursuant to 37-8-202 and 37-8-409.   (2) "Attending advanced practice registered nurse" means the advanced practice registered nurse who is selected by or assigned to the patient and who has primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.   (3) "Attending physician" has the meaning provided in 50-9-102.   (4) "Board" means the state board of medical examiners.   (5) "Department" means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201.   (6) "DNR identification" means a standardized identification card, form, necklace, or bracelet of uniform size and design, approved by the department, that signifies that the possessor is a qualified patient, as defined in 50-9-102, or that the possessor's attending physician or attending advanced practice registered nurse has issued a do not resuscitate order for the possessor and has documented the grounds for the order in the possessor's medical file.   (7) "Do not resuscitate order" means a directive from a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse that emergency life-sustaining procedures should not be administered to a particular person.   (8) "Do not resuscitate protocol" means a standardized method of procedure, approved by the board and adopted in the rules of the department, for the withholding of emergency life-sustaining procedures by physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and emergency medical services personnel.   (9) "Emergency medical services personnel" has the meaning provided in 50-9-102.   (10) "Health care facility" has the meaning provided in 50-5-101 and includes a public health center as defined in 7-34-2102.   (11) "Life-sustaining procedure" means cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.   (12) "Physician" means a person licensed under Title 37, chapter 3, to practice medicine in this state.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 286, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 103, Ch. 418, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 278, Ch. 546, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 93, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-10-102 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-102. Immunities

  50-10-102. Immunities. (1) The following are not subject to civil or criminal liability and are not guilty of unprofessional conduct upon discovery of DNR identification upon a person:   (a) a physician or advanced practice registered nurse who causes the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from that person;   (b) a person who participates in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures under the direction or with the authorization of a physician or an advanced practice registered nurse;   (c) emergency medical services personnel who cause or participate in the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from that person;   (d) a health care facility in which withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from that person occurs;   (e) physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, persons under the direction or authorization of a physician or an advanced practice registered nurse, emergency medical services personnel, or health care facilities that provide life-sustaining procedures pursuant to an oral or written request communicated to them by a person who possesses DNR identification.   (2) The provisions of subsections (1)(a) through (1)(d) apply when a life-sustaining procedure is withheld or withdrawn in accordance with the do not resuscitate protocol.   (3) Emergency medical services personnel who follow a do not resuscitate order from a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse are not subject to civil or criminal liability and are not guilty of unprofessional conduct.   History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-10-103 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-103. Adherence to do not resuscitate protocol -- transfer of patients

  50-10-103. Adherence to do not resuscitate protocol -- transfer of patients. (1) Except as provided in 72-17-216, emergency medical services personnel, other than physicians or advanced practice registered nurses, shall comply with the do not resuscitate protocol when presented with either do not resuscitate identification, an oral do not resuscitate order issued directly by a physician or an advanced practice registered nurse, or a written do not resuscitate order entered on a form prescribed by the department.   (2) An attending physician, an attending advanced practice registered nurse, or a health care facility unwilling or unable to comply with the do not resuscitate protocol shall take all reasonable steps to transfer a person possessing DNR identification to another physician or advanced practice registered nurse or to a health care facility in which the do not resuscitate protocol will be followed.   History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 240, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 345, L. 2007.
MT Code § 50-10-104 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-104. Effect on insurance -- patient's decision

  50-10-104. Effect on insurance -- patient's decision. (1) Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of emergency life-sustaining procedures pursuant to the do not resuscitate protocol and in accordance with this part is not, for any purpose, a suicide or homicide.   (2) The possession of DNR identification pursuant to this part does not affect in any manner the sale, procurement, or issuance of any policy of life insurance, nor does it modify the terms of an existing policy of life insurance. A policy of life insurance is not legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of emergency life-sustaining procedures from an insured person possessing DNR identification, notwithstanding any term of the policy to the contrary.   (3) A physician, advanced practice registered nurse, health care facility, or other health care provider and a health care service plan, insurer issuing disability insurance, self-insured employee welfare benefit plan, or nonprofit hospital plan may not require a person to possess DNR identification as a condition for being insured for or receiving health care services.   (4) This part does not create a presumption concerning the intention of an individual who does not possess DNR identification with respect to the use, withholding, or withdrawal of emergency life-sustaining procedures.   (5) This part does not increase or decrease the right of a patient to make decisions regarding the use of emergency life-sustaining procedures if the patient is able to do so, nor does this part impair or supersede any right or responsibility that a person has to effect the withholding or withdrawal of medical care in any lawful manner. In that respect, the provisions of this part are cumulative.   (6) This part does not authorize or approve mercy killing.   History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-10-105 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-105. Rulemaking authority

  50-10-105. Rulemaking authority. (1) Upon the adoption of a do not resuscitate protocol by the board, the department may adopt a standard form of DNR identification to be used statewide.   (2) The department shall adopt rules to administer the provisions of this part.   History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 581, L. 1991.
MT Code § 50-10-106 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-106. Penalties

  50-10-106. Penalties. (1) A physician or advanced practice registered nurse who willfully fails to transfer a patient in accordance with 50-10-103 is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (2) A person who purposely conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates the DNR identification of another without the consent of the possessor or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the DNR identification of another is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   (3) A person who falsifies or forges the DNR identification of another or purposely conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of DNR identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed 1 year, or both.   History: En. Sec. 6, Ch. 581, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 240, L. 2003.
MT Code § 50-10-107 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 10. Do Not Resuscitate -- Notification|Part 1. General|50-10-107. DNR form to be readily available

  50-10-107. DNR form to be readily available. The department shall ensure that the DNR identification form approved by the department is readily available at no cost or at a nominal charge.   History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 286, L. 1993.
MT Code § 50-11-101 (2021)
2021 Montana Code Annotated|Title 50. Health and Safety|Chapter 11. Ban on Reproductive Human Cloning|Part 1. General Provisions|50-11-101. Definitions

  50-11-101. Definitions. As used in this part, the following definitions apply:   (1) "Embryo" means an organism of the species Homo sapiens from the single cell stage to 8 weeks of development.   (2) "Fetus" means an organism of the species Homo sapiens from 8 weeks of development until complete expulsion or extraction from a woman's body or removal from an artificial womb or other similar environment designed to nurture the development of the organism.   (3) "Oocyte" means the human female germ cell, the egg.   (4) "Reproductive human cloning" means human cloning intended to result in the gestation or birth of a child who is genetically identical to another conceptus, embryo, fetus, or human being, living or dead.   (5) "Somatic cell" means a diploid cell, having a complete set of chromosomes, obtained or derived from a living or deceased human body at any stage of development.   History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 126, L. 2009.