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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2133.01 Modified uniform rights of terminally ill act definitions
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Unless the context otherwise requires, as used in sections 2133.01 to 2133.15 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is eighteen years of age or older. (B) "Attending physician" means the physician to whom a declarant or other patient, or the family of a declara…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2133.02 Declaration relating to use of life-sustaining treatment
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(A)(1) An adult who is of sound mind voluntarily may execute at any time a declaration governing the use or continuation, or the withholding or withdrawal, of life-sustaining treatment. The declaration shall be signed at the end by the declarant or by another individual at the di…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2133.03 When declaration operative
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(A)(1) A declaration becomes operative when it is communicated to the attending physician of the declarant, the attending physician and one other physician who examines the declarant determine that the declarant is in a terminal condition or in a permanently unconscious state, wh…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2133.04 Revocation of declaration
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(A) A declarant may revoke a declaration at any time and in any manner. The revocation shall be effective when the declarant expresses an intention to revoke the declaration, except that, if the declarant made the declarant's attending physician aware of the declaration, the revo…