(a) If unrelated to the principal by blood, marriage or adoption:
(A) The attending physician or attending health care provider of the principal, or an employee of the attending physician or attending health care provider of the principal; or
(B) An owner, operator or employee of a health care facility in which the principal is a patient or resident, unless the health care representative was appointed before the principal’s admission to the facility; or
(b) A person who is the principal’s parent or former guardian if:
(A) At any time while the principal was under the care, custody or control of the person, a court entered an order:
(i) Taking the principal into protective custody under ORS 419B.150; or
(ii) Committing the principal to the legal custody of the Department of Human Services for care, placement and supervision under ORS 419B.337; and
(B) The court entered a subsequent order that:
(i) The principal should be permanently removed from the person’s home, or continued in substitute care, because it was not safe for the principal to be returned to the person’s home, and no subsequent order of the court was entered that permitted the principal to return to the person’s home before the principal’s wardship was terminated under ORS 419B.328; or
(ii) Terminated the person’s parental rights under ORS 419B.500 and 419B.502 to 419B.524.
(2) A principal, while not incapable, may petition the court to remove a prohibition described in subsection (1)(b) of this section.
(3) A capable adult may disqualify any other person from making health care decisions for the capable adult. The disqualification must be in writing and signed by the capable adult. The disqualification must specifically designate those persons who are disqualified.
(4) A health care representative whose authority has been revoked by a court is disqualified.
(5) A health care provider who has actual knowledge of a disqualification may not accept a health care decision from the disqualified person.
(6) A person who has been disqualified from making health care decisions for a principal, and who is aware of that disqualification, may not make health care decisions for the principal. [1989 c.914 §4; 1993 c.767 §5; 2011 c.194 §2; 2018 c.36 §11]
Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 03 - Landlord-Tenant, Domestic Relations, Probate
Section 127.002 - Definitions for ORS 127.005 to 127.045.
Section 127.005 - When power of attorney in effect; accounting to conservator.
Section 127.505 - Definitions for ORS 127.505 to 127.660.
Section 127.515 - Execution; witnesses; out-of-state execution.
Section 127.525 - Acceptance of appointment; withdrawal.
Section 127.527 - Form for appointing health care representative.
Section 127.529 - Form of advance directive.
Section 127.532 - Appointment; term of office; rules.
Section 127.533 - Duties; advance directive elements; reports.
Section 127.535 - Authority of health care representative; duties; objection by principal.
Section 127.540 - Limitations on authority of health care representative.
Section 127.570 - Mercy killing; suicide.
Section 127.642 - Principal to be provided with certain care to insure comfort and cleanliness.
Section 127.646 - Definitions for ORS 127.646 to 127.654.
Section 127.652 - Time of providing information.
Section 127.654 - Scope of requirement; limitation on liability for failure to comply.
Section 127.658 - Effect of ORS 127.505 to 127.660 on previously executed advance directives.
Section 127.660 - Short title.
Section 127.663 - Definitions for ORS 127.663 to 127.684.
Section 127.666 - Establishment of registry; rules.
Section 127.669 - Oregon Health Authority not required to perform certain acts.
Section 127.700 - Definitions for ORS 127.700 to 127.737.
Section 127.702 - Persons who may make declaration for mental health treatment; period of validity.
Section 127.720 - Circumstances in which physician or provider may disregard declaration.
Section 127.722 - Revocation of declaration.
Section 127.727 - Persons prohibited from serving as attorney-in-fact.
Section 127.730 - Persons prohibited from serving as witnesses to declaration.
Section 127.732 - Withdrawal of attorney-in-fact; rescission of withdrawal.
Section 127.736 - Form of declaration.
Section 127.737 - Certain other laws applicable to declaration.
Section 127.760 - Consent to health care services by person appointed by hospital; exceptions.
Section 127.800 - sect;1.01. Definitions.
Section 127.805 - sect;2.01. Who may initiate a written request for medication.
Section 127.810 - sect;2.02. Form of the written request.
Section 127.815 - sect;3.01. Attending physician responsibilities.
Section 127.840 - sect;3.06. Written and oral requests.
Section 127.850 - sect;3.08. Waiting periods.
Section 127.855 - sect;3.09. Medical record documentation requirements.
Section 127.860 - sect;3.10. Residency requirement.
Section 127.865 - sect;3.11. Reporting requirements.
Section 127.870 - sect;3.12. Effect on construction of wills, contracts and statutes.
Section 127.890 - sect;4.02. Liabilities.