Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-3131.8

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Protection from criminal prosecution, civil liability

Official statutory text

and professional discipline.

A. No health care provider, health care agency, or individual

employed by, acting as the agent of, or under contract with any such

health care provider, health care agency, or individual shall be

subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or discipline for

unprofessional conduct for carrying out in good faith a do-not-

resuscitate consent or order authorized by the Oklahoma Do-Not-

Resuscitate Act on behalf of a person as instructed by the person or

representative or for those actions taken in compliance with the

standards and procedures set forth in the Oklahoma Do-Not-

Resuscitate Act.

B. No health care provider, health care agency, individual

employed by, acting as agent of, or under contract with any such

health care provider, health care agency or individual or other

individual who witnesses a cardiac or respiratory arrest shall be

subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability or discipline for

unprofessional conduct for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation

to a person for whom a do-not-resuscitate consent or order has been

issued; provided, that such individual:

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1. Reasonably and in good faith was unaware of the issuance of

a do-not-resuscitate consent or order; or

2. Reasonably and in good faith believed that consent to a do-

not-resuscitate order had been revoked or canceled.

C. Any physician who refuses to issue a do-not-resuscitate

order at a person's request or any health care provider or health

care agency who refuses to comply with a do-not-resuscitate consent

or order entered pursuant to the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act

shall take reasonable steps to advise the person or representative

of the person promptly that the physician is unwilling to effectuate

the consent or order and shall as promptly as practicable take all

reasonable steps to arrange care of the person by another physician

or health care provider.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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