§ 54.1-2983.3 Exclusions and limitations of advance directives
A. The absence of an advance directive by an adult patient shall not give rise to any presumption as to his intent to consent to or refuse any particular health care.
B. The provisions of this article shall not apply to authorization of nontherapeutic sterilization, abortion, or psychosurgery.
C. If any provision of a patient’s advance directive conflicts with the authority conferred by any emergency custody, temporary detention, involuntary admission, and mandatory outpatient treatment order set forth in Chapter 8 (§ 37.2-800 et seq.) of Title 37.2 or by any other provision of law, the provisions of the patient’s advance directive that create the conflict shall have no effect. However, a patient’s advance directive shall otherwise be given full effect.
D. The provisions of this article, if otherwise applicable, may be used to authorize admission of a patient to a facility, as defined in § 37.2-100, only if the admission is otherwise authorized under Chapter 8 (§ 37.2-800 et seq.) of Title 37.2.
History
This law was first created in 2009. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 211 and 268 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2010, chapter 792.
2009, cc. 211, 268; 2010, c. 792.