No consent shall be required for a licensed physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to provide any legally authorized medical or mental health services to a person when the person is either physically unable to consent or mentally unable to consent and who, but for the mental or physical disability, would be able to consent; provided, that two or more licensed physicians, psychiatrists, or psychologists, or one licensed physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist and one or more nurse practitioners or physician assistants, after having consultation, have signed a written statement finding, in their judgment, that the medical services are necessary and that a delay in treatment would increase the risk to the person's life or health.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.
Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.
Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.
Section 22-8-1 - Persons Physically or Mentally Unable to Consent.
Section 22-8-2 - When Consent of Missing Husband or Wife Not Required.
Section 22-8-3 - When Physician May Proceed Without Consent of Parent.
Section 22-8-4 - When Minor May Give Consent Generally.
Section 22-8-5 - Consent of Minor for Self and Child.
Section 22-8-8 - Consents Authorized Deemed Cumulative.
Section 22-8-9 - Consent of Minor to Donation of Bone Marrow; Consent by Parent or Legal Guardian.