32A-21. Appointment, resignation, removal, and substitution.
(a) A health care power of attorney may contain provisions relating to the appointment, resignation, removal and substitution of the health care agent.
(b) If all health care agents named in the instrument or substituted, die or for any reason fail or refuse to act, and all methods of substitution have been exhausted, the health care power of attorney shall cease to be effective. (1991, c. 639, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 32A - Powers of Attorney
Article 3 - Health Care Powers of Attorney.
§ 32A-15 - General purpose of this Article.
§ 32A-16.1 - Health care powers of attorney executed during state of emergency.
§ 32A-17 - Who may make a health care power of attorney.
§ 32A-18 - Who may act as a health care attorney-in-fact.
§ 32A-19 - Extent of authority; limitations of authority.
§ 32A-20 - Effectiveness and duration; revocation.
§ 32A-21 - Appointment, resignation, removal, and substitution.
§ 32A-23 - Article 2, Chapter 32A, not applicable.
§ 32A-24 - Reliance on health care power of attorney; defense.
§ 32A-25.1 - Statutory form health care power of attorney.
§ 32A-26 - Health care power of attorney and declaration of desire for natural death.
§ 32A-27 - Health care powers of attorney executed in other jurisdictions.