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Title 75 - Utah Uniform Probate Code
Chapter 2a - Advance Health Care Directive Act
Section 109 - Effect of current health care preferences -- When a surrogate may act.
Universal Citation:
75-2a-109. Effect of current health care preferences -- When a surrogate may act.
UT Code ยง 75-2a-109 (2014)
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| (1) | An adult with health care decision making capacity retains the right to make health care decisions as long as the adult has health care decision making capacity as defined in Section 75-2a-103. For purposes of this chapter, the inability to communicate through speech does not mean that the adult lacks health care decision making capacity. |
| (2) | An adult's current health care decisions, however expressed or indicated, always supersede an adult's prior decisions or health care directives. |
| (3) | Unless otherwise directed in an advance health care directive, an advance health care directive or the authority of a surrogate to make health care decisions on behalf of an adult:
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Amended by Chapter 99, 2009 General Session
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