2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 35 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 22 - LIVING WILL
ARTICLE 2 - CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION DIRECTIVES
SECTION 35-22-204. - Duty to comply with cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive; immunity; effect on criminal charges against another person. [Note: this law is repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 189, § 2. effective 7/1/2016.]

WY Stat § 35-22-204. (2015) What's This?

35-22-204. Duty to comply with cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive; immunity; effect on criminal charges against another person.

(a) Emergency medical service personnel, health care providers and health care facilities shall comply with a person's cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive that is apparent and immediately available. Any emergency medical service personnel, health care provider, health care facility or any other person who, in good faith, complies with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive which is perceived to be valid shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or regulatory sanction for such compliance.

(b) Compliance by emergency medical service personnel, health care providers or health care facilities with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive shall not affect the criminal prosecution of any person otherwise charged with the commission of a criminal act.

(c) In the absence of a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive, a person's consent to cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall be presumed.

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