DIVISION 4.7. HEALTH CARE DECISIONS 4600-4806›PART 2. UNIFORM HEALTH CARE DECISIONS ACT 4670-4743›CHAPTER 4. Duties of Health Care Providers 4730-4736

§ 4734

California Probate Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

(a) A health care provider may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision for reasons of conscience.

(b) A health care institution may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision if the instruction or decision is contrary to a policy of the institution that is expressly based on reasons of conscience and if the policy was timely communicated to the patient or to a person then authorized to make health care decisions for the patient.

(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 658, Sec. 39. Effective January 1, 2000. Operative July 1, 2000, by Sec. 43 of Ch. 658.)

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