New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 7A - Uniform Health-Care Decisions

Section 24-7A-1 - Definitions. - As used in the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act: A. "advance...

Section 24-7A-2 - Advance health-care directives. - A. An adult or emancipated minor, while having capacity, has...

Section 24-7A-2.1 - Prohibited practice. - A. No insurer or other provider of benefits regulated by...

Section 24-7A-3 - Revocation of advance health-care directive. - A. An individual, while having capacity, may revoke the designation...

Section 24-7A-4 - Optional form. - The following form may, but need not, be used to...

Section 24-7A-5 - Decisions by surrogate. - A. A surrogate may make a health-care decision for a...

Section 24-7A-6 - Decisions by guardian. - A. A guardian shall comply with the protected person's individual...

Section 24-7A-6.1 - Life-sustaining treatment for unemancipated minors. - A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a parent or...

Section 24-7A-6.2 - Consent to health care for certain minors fourteen years of age or older. - A. An unemancipated minor fourteen years of age or older...

Section 24-7A-7 - Obligations of health-care practitioner. - A. Before implementing a health-care decision made for a patient,...

Section 24-7A-8 - Health-care information. - Unless otherwise specified in an advance health-care directive, a person...

Section 24-7A-9 - Immunities. - A. A health-care provider or health-care institution acting in good...

Section 24-7A-10 - Statutory damages. - A. A health-care provider or health-care institution that intentionally violates...

Section 24-7A-11 - Capacity. - A. The Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act does not affect the...

Section 24-7A-12 - Effect of copy. - A copy of a written advance health-care directive, revocation of...

Section 24-7A-13 - Effect of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act. - A. The Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act does not create a...

Section 24-7A-14 - Judicial relief. - On petition of a patient, the patient's agent, guardian or...

Section 24-7A-15 - Uniformity of application and construction. - The Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act shall be applied and construed...

Section 24-7A-16 - Transitional provisions. - A. An advance health-care directive is valid for purposes of...

Section 24-7A-17 - Short title. - Chapter 24, Article 7A NMSA 1978 may be cited as...

Section 24-7A-18 - Severability. - If any provision of the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act or...