2015 Wyoming Code
TITLE 35 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 22 - LIVING WILL
ARTICLE 2 - CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION DIRECTIVES
SECTION 35-22-203. - Cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive forms; duties of department of health. [Note: this law is repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 189, § 2. effective 7/1/2016.]

35-22-203. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive forms; duties of department of health.

(a) On or before January 1, 1994, the state department of health shall promulgate rules and protocols for the implementation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation directives by emergency medical personnel. The protocols adopted shall include uniform methods of identifying persons who have executed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive. Protocols adopted by the department of health shall include methods for rapid identification of persons who have executed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive, controlled distribution of the methods of identifying persons who have executed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive, and the information described in subsection (b) of this section. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to restrict any other manner in which a person may make a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive.

(b) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive protocols to be adopted by the state department of health shall, at a minimum, require the following information concerning the person who is the subject of the cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive:

(i) The person's name, date of birth and sex;

(ii) The person's eye and hair color;

(iii) The person's race or ethnic background;

(iv) If applicable, the name of a hospice program in which the person is enrolled;

(v) The name, address and telephone number of the person's attending physician;

(vi) The person's signature or mark or, if applicable, the signature of a person authorized by this article to execute a cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive;

(vii) The date on which the cardiopulmonary resuscitation directive was signed;

(viii) The person's directive concerning the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, countersigned by the person's attending physician.