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                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 45
                  THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT
    39-4513.  IMMUNITY. (1) No medical personnel or health care facility shall
be civilly or criminally liable for acts or omissions carried out or performed
pursuant to the directives in a facially valid living will or by the holder of
a facially valid durable power of attorney or directive for health care if the
medical personnel or health care facility acts in good faith.
    (2)  Any physician or other health care provider who for ethical or
professional reasons is incapable or unwilling to conform to the desires of
the patient as expressed by the procedures set forth in this chapter may
withdraw without incurring any civil or criminal liability provided the
physician or other health care provider makes a good faith effort to assist
the patient in obtaining the services of another physician or other health
care provider before withdrawal.
    (3)  No person who exercises the responsibilities of a durable power of
attorney for health care in good faith shall be subject to civil or criminal
liability as a result.
    (4)  Neither the registration of a health care directive in the health
care directive registry under section 39-4515, Idaho Code, nor the revocation
of such a directive requires a health care provider to request information
from that registry. The decision of a health care provider to request or not
to request a health care directive document from the registry shall be immune
from civil or criminal liability. A health care provider who in good faith
acts in reliance on a facially valid health care directive received from the
health care directive registry shall be immune from civil or criminal
liability for those acts done in such reliance.