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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-6-308

Liability

Acts 2017, No. 504, § 1.

A healthcare provider, healthcare facility, or employee or agent of the healthcare provider or healthcare facility is not subject to civil or criminal liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct for:

(1) Complying with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form based upon a good-faith assumption that the physician order for life-sustaining treatment form was valid when executed and that the physician order for life-sustaining treatment form was not revoked or terminated;

(2) Failing to comply with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form based upon a good faith determination that: The physician order for life-sustaining treatment form was not valid; or

(3) The physician order for life-sustaining treatment form requires medically ineffective health care or health care contrary to generally accepted healthcare standards applicable to the healthcare provider or healthcare facility; or

(4) Declining to comply with an executed physician order for life-sustaining treatment form based upon religious beliefs or moral convictions if the healthcare provider or healthcare facility complies with the requirements of § 20-6-305.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.