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2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 231 ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH CARE AND DISPOSITION
§ 9717 Presumption of validity


18 VT Stats § 9717. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 9717. Presumption of validity

An advance directive executed as provided in this chapter shall be presumed valid. No third party shall require an additional or different form of advance directive. A photocopy or facsimile of a duly executed original advance directive shall be relied upon to the same extent as the original. (Added 2005, No. 55, { 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2005.)

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