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311.627 Revocation.
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An advance directive made pursuant to KRS 311.623 may be revoked by:
(a) A writing declaring an intention to revoke, which writing shall be signed
and dated by the grantor;
(b) An oral statement of intent to revoke made by a grantor with decisional
capacity in the presence of two (2) adults, one (1) of whom shall be a
health care provider; or
(c) Destruction of the document by the grantor or by some person in the
grantor's presence and at the grantor's direction.
An oral statement by a grantor with decisional capacity to revoke an advance
directive shall override any previous written advance directive made.
Any revocation made pursuant to this section shall become effective
immediately. An attending physician or health care facility shall not be required
to administer treatment in accordance with the revocation until the time notice
of the revocation is received. Upon receiving notice of the revocation, the
attending physician or health care facility shall record, in the grantor's medical
record, the time, date, and place of the notice receipt. No physician or health
care facility shall be subject to any liability for acting in good faith upon the
knowledge, or lack thereof, of the existence or revocation of an advance
directive.
The designation of a health care surrogate made pursuant to KRS 311.623
may be revoked in whole or in part or the surrogate's powers reduced or limited
at any time by the grantor, if the grantor has decisional capacity. A new
designation shall revoke any prior designation unless the revocation, in whole
or in part, is specifically negated.
Effective:July 15, 1994
History: Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 235, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994.
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