As Amended
SEC. 41-41-155. Definitions.
For purposes of Sections 41-41-151 through 41-41-183:
(a) "Durable power of attorney for health care" shall mean a document that authorizes an attorney in fact to make health care decisions for the principal if the principal is unable to give informed consent with respect to a given health care decision;
(b) "Attorney in fact" shall mean one who is designated as an agent in a durable power of attorney for health care to make health care decisions on behalf of the principal;
(c) "Health care" shall mean any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or treat an individual's physical or mental condition;
(d) "Health care decision" shall mean consent, refusal of consent or withdrawal of consent to health care;
(e) "Health care provider" shall mean a person who is licensed, certified or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession;
(f) "Person" shall include an individual, corporation, partnership, association, the state, a city, county, city and county or other public entity or governmental subdivision or agency or any other legal entity;
(g) "Principal" shall mean the individual for which the attorney in fact makes health care decisions.
SOURCES: Laws, 1990, ch. 571, Sec. 3, eff from and after July 1, 1990.