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2005 Idaho Code - 39-4513 — IMMUNITY
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.
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