2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-1-744.3. Medical emergency – Notice requirement.

Universal Citation:
63 OK Stat § 1-744.3 (2023)
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Immediate notice shall not be required if the attending physician certifies in the pregnant female's record that, in reasonable medical judgment, a medical emergency exists and there is insufficient time to provide the prior notification required by Section 6 of this act. The attending physician or the physician's agent shall verbally inform the parent within twenty-four (24) hours after the performance of a medical emergency abortion, that a medical emergency abortion was performed on the unemancipated minor or on the female for whom a guardian or conservator has been appointed and shall also send a written notice within twenty-four (24) hours after the performance of a medical emergency abortion to the last-known address of the parent, of the performed medical emergency abortion. The written notice shall follow the requirements in paragraph 2 of Section 6 of this act.

Added by Laws 2013, c. 320, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.

NOTE: The conditional repeal of this section by Laws 2021, c. 308, § 8, was itself repealed by Laws 2022, c. 133, § 2, emerg. eff. April 29, 2022.

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