2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-B - (2960 - 2979) ORDERS NOT TO RESUSCITATE FOR RESIDENTS OF MENTAL HYGIENE FACILITIES
2971 - Interinstitutional transfers.

 
    §  2971. Interinstitutional  transfers. If a patient for whom an order
  not to resuscitate has been issued is transferred from a hospital  to  a
  different  hospital  the  order  shall  remain effective, unless revoked
  pursuant to this article, until the attending physician  first  examines
  the transferred patient, whereupon the attending physician must either:
    1.  Issue an order continuing the prior order not to resuscitate. Such
  order may be issued without obtaining further consent from the  patient,
  surrogate or parent pursuant to this article; or
    2.  Cancel  the  order  not  to  resuscitate,  provided  the attending
  physician immediately notifies the person who consented to the order and
  the hospital staff directly responsible for the patient's  care  of  the
  cancellation.  Such  cancellation  does  not preclude the entry of a new
  order pursuant to this article.
    3. For purposes of this section, an order not to resuscitate issued by
  a general hospital as defined in subdivision ten of section twenty-eight
  hundred one of this chapter, or by a residential health care facility as
  defined in subdivision three of section twenty-eight hundred one of this
  chapter, shall be deemed a hospital order not to resuscitate.