2018 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-CC - Family Health Care Decisions Act
2994-E - Decisions About Life-Sustaining Treatment for Minor Patients.

§   2994-e.   Decisions  about  life-sustaining  treatment  for  minor
  patients. 1. Authority of parent or guardian. The parent or guardian  of
  a  minor  patient  shall  have  the  authority  to  make decisions about
  life-sustaining treatment, including decisions to withhold  or  withdraw
  such   treatment,   subject  to  the  provisions  of  this  section  and
  subdivision five of section twenty-nine hundred  ninety-four-d  of  this
  article.
2. Decision-making standards and procedures for minor patient. (a) The
  parent or guardian of a minor patient shall make decisions in accordance
  with the minor's best interests, consistent with the standards set forth
  in subdivision four of section twenty-nine hundred ninety-four-d of this
  article, taking into account the minor's wishes as appropriate under the
  circumstances.
(b)  An  attending  physician  or  attending  nurse  practitioner,  in
  consultation with a minor's parent or guardian, shall determine  whether
  a  minor patient has decision-making capacity for a decision to withhold
  or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. If the minor has such capacity, a
  parent's or guardian's decision to withhold or withdraw  life-sustaining
  treatment  for  the  minor  may  not  be implemented without the minor's
  consent.
(c) Where a parent or guardian of a minor patient has made a  decision
  to  withhold  or  withdraw  life-sustaining  treatment  and an attending
  physician or attending nurse practitioner has reason to believe that the
  minor patient has a parent or guardian who has not been informed of  the
  decision,  including  a  non-custodial  parent or guardian, an attending
  physician,attending nurse practitioner or someone acting on his  or  her
  behalf,  shall  make  reasonable  efforts to determine if the uninformed
  parent or guardian has maintained  substantial  and  continuous  contact
  with  the  minor  and, if so, shall make diligent efforts to notify that
  parent or guardian prior to implementing the decision.
3. Decision-making standards  and  procedures  for  emancipated  minor
  patient.  (a)  If an attending physician or attending nurse practitioner
  determines  that  a  patient  is  an  emancipated  minor  patient   with
  decision-making capacity, the patient shall have the authority to decide
  about life-sustaining treatment. Such authority shall include a decision
  to  withhold  or  withdraw  life-sustaining  treatment  if  an attending
  physician  or  attending  nurse  practitioner  and  the  ethics   review
  committee  determine  that  the  decision accords with the standards for
  surrogate decisions for adults, and the ethics review committee approves
  the decision.
(b) If the hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity
  of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient, the hospital
  shall  notify  such  persons  prior  to   withholding   or   withdrawing
  life-sustaining treatment pursuant to this subdivision.