Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1504 – Good faith reliance on consent
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1. Reliance on minor‘s consent. A health care practitioner or health care provider who takes reasonable steps to ascertain that a minor is authorized to consent to health care as authorized in section 1503 and who subsequently renders health care in reliance on that consent is not liable for failing to have secured consent of the minor’s parents or legal guardian prior to providing health care to the minor.
[PL 2015, c. 444, §3 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1504
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Health care: means any care, treatment, service or procedure to maintain, diagnose or otherwise affect an individual's physical or mental condition. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1501
- Minor: means a person under 18 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1501
- Surrogate: means :
2. Reliance on surrogate‘s consent. Recovery is not allowed against any health care practitioner or health care provider upon the grounds that the health care was rendered without informed consent if consent is given by the minor’s surrogate pursuant to section 1503?A and the health care practitioner or provider acts with good faith reliance on that consent.
[PL 2015, c. 444, §3 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1995, c. 694, §C8 (NEW). PL 1995, c. 694, §E2 (AFF). PL 2015, c. 444, §3 (RPR).