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Section 35-22-304 - Duty to Comply; Immunity; Effect on Criminal Charges Against Another Person.

WY Stat § 35-22-304 (2019) (N/A)
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35-22-304. Duty to comply; immunity; effect on criminal charges against another person.

(a) Emergency medical service personnel in emergency situations if they are aware of the person's psychiatric advance directive, psychiatric personnel, health care providers and health care facilities shall comply with a person's psychiatric advance directive to the extent medically indicated.

(b) Any emergency medical service personnel, psychiatric personnel, health care provider, health care facility or any other person who, reasonably and in good faith, complies with a psychiatric advance directive shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability or regulatory sanction for such compliance.

(c) Compliance by emergency medical service personnel, psychiatric personnel, health care providers or health care facilities with a psychiatric advance directive shall not affect the criminal prosecution of any person otherwise charged with the commission of a criminal act.

(d) In the absence of a psychiatric advance directive, a person's consent to psychiatric restabilization measures shall not be presumed.

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