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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-613" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Health Care Decisions Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A health care provider that intends not to comply with an instruction of a health care agent or a surrogate shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Inform the person giving the instruction that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The health care provider declines to carry out the instruction;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The person may request a transfer to another health care provider; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The health care provider will make every reasonable effort to transfer the patient to another health care provider;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Assist in the transfer; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Pending the transfer, comply with an instruction of a competent individual, or of a health care agent or surrogate for an individual who is incapable of making an informed decision, if a failure to comply with the instruction would likely result in the death of the individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Nothing in this section authorizes a health care provider to provide health care to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A competent individual over the objection of that individual; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An individual incapable of making an informed decision over the objection of another person authorized by law to consent to the provision of health care for the individual.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
