2017 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 18-A: PROBATE CODE
Article 5: PROTECTION OF PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY AND THEIR PROPERTY
Part 8: UNIFORM HEALTH-CARE DECISIONS ACT
18-A §5-813. Effect of Part

§5-813. Effect of Part

(a). This Part does not create a presumption concerning the intention of an individual who has not made or who has revoked an advance health-care directive.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(b). Death resulting from the withholding or withdrawal of health care in accordance with this Part does not for any purpose constitute a suicide or homicide or legally impair or invalidate a policy of insurance or an annuity providing a death benefit, notwithstanding any term of the policy or annuity to the contrary.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(c). This Part does not authorize mercy killing, assisted suicide, euthanasia or the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of health care to the extent prohibited by other statutes of this State.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(d). This Part does not authorize or require a health-care provider or institution to provide health care contrary to generally accepted health-care standards applicable to the health-care provider or institution.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(e). This Part does not authorize an agent or surrogate to consent to the admission of an individual to a mental health-care institution unless the individual's written advance health-care directive expressly so provides.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

(f). This Part does not affect other statutes of this State governing treatment for mental illness of an individual involuntarily committed to a mental health-care institution.

[ 1995, c. 378, Pt. A, §1 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1995, c. 378, §A1 (NEW).