Michigan Laws 333.1063 – Immunity from civil or criminal liability; conditions
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A person or organization is not subject to civil or criminal liability for either of the following:
(a) Attempting to resuscitate an individual who has executed a do-not-resuscitate order or on whose behalf an order has been executed, if the person or organization has no actual notice of the order.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 333.1063
- Actual notice: includes the physical presentation of an order, a revocation of an order, or another written document authorized under this act from or on behalf of a declarant. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- order: means a document executed under this act directing that, if an individual suffers cessation of both spontaneous respiration and circulation in a setting outside of a hospital, resuscitation will not be initiated. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- Organization: means a company, corporation, firm, partnership, association, trust, or other business entity or a governmental agency. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
- resuscitate: means perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or a component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) Cardiac compression. See Michigan Laws 333.1052
(b) Failing to resuscitate an individual who has revoked a do-not-resuscitate order or on whose behalf a do-not-resuscitate order has been revoked, if the person or organization does not receive actual notice of the revocation.