Title 15, Probate, Trusts, and Fiduciaries
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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-101 Short title
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This article shall be known and may be cited as the Colorado Medical Treatment Decision Act. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 375, � 1, effective August 11.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-102 Legislative declaration
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(1) The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that: (a) Colorado law has traditionally recognized the right of an adult to accept or reject medical or surgical treatment; (b) Recent advances in medical science have made it possible to prolong the dying process t…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-103 Definitions
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As used in this article 18, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) Adult means any person eighteen years of age or older. (2) Advanced practice registered nurse means a nurse who is included in the advanced practice registry pursuant to section 12-255-111. (3) Artificial nutr…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-104 Declaration as to medical treatment
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(1) Any adult with decisional capacity may execute a declaration directing that life-sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn if, at some future time, he or she has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state, and lacks decisional capacity to accept or rejec…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-105 Inability of declarant to sign
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(1) In the event that the declarant is physically unable to sign the declaration, it may be signed by some other person in the declarant's presence and at the declarant's direction. The other person shall not be: (a) The attending physician or any other physician; (b) An employee…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-106 Witnessed or notarized declaration
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 15-18-105, a declaration must be: (a) Signed by the declarant in the presence of two witnesses; or (b) Signed by the declarant and acknowledged before a notary public or other individual authorized by law to take acknowledgments, unless…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-107 Withdrawal - withholding of life-sustaining procedures
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In the event that an attending physician is presented with an unrevoked declaration executed by a declarant whom the physician believes has a terminal condition or is in a persistent vegetative state, and lacks decisional capacity to accept or reject medical or surgical treatment…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-108 Determination of validity
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(1) Any person who is the parent, adult child, spouse, designated beneficiary under the Colorado Designated Beneficiary Agreement Act, article 22 of this title, or attorney-in-fact under a durable power of attorney of the qualified patient may challenge the validity of a declarat…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-109 Revocation of declaration
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A declaration may be revoked by the declarant orally, in writing, or by burning, tearing, canceling, obliterating, or destroying said declaration. Source: L. 2010: Entire article R&RE, (HB 10-1025), ch. 113, p. 381, � 1, effective August 11.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-110 Liability
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(1) With respect to any declaration that appears on its face to have been executed in accordance with the requirements of this article: (a) Any physician or advanced practice registered nurse may act in compliance with such declaration in the absence of actual notice of revocatio…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-111 Determination of suicide or homicide - effect of declaration on insurance
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The withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a qualified patient pursuant to this article shall not, for any purpose, constitute a suicide or a homicide. The existence of a declaration shall not affect, impair, or modify any contract of life insurance or annui…
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-112 Application of article
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(1) Nothing in this article shall be construed as altering or amending the standards of the practice of medicine or nursing or establishing any presumption, absent a valid declaration, nor as condoning, authorizing, or approving euthanasia or mercy killing, nor as permitting any …
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 15-18-113 Penalties - refusal - transfer
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(1) A person who willfully conceals, defaces, damages, or destroys a declaration of another person, without the knowledge and consent of the declarant, commits a class 2 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501. (2) A person who falsifies or forges a de…