1.  If a valid Provider Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment form sets forth a declaration, direction or order which conflicts with a declaration, direction or order set forth in one or more of the other types of advance directives:

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(a) The declaration, direction or order set forth in the document executed most recently is valid; and

(b) Any other declarations, directions or orders that do not conflict with a declaration, direction or order set forth in another document referenced in this subsection remain valid.

2.  If a valid POLST form sets forth a declaration, direction or order to provide life-resuscitating treatment to a patient who also possesses a do-not-resuscitate identification, a provider of health care shall provide life-resuscitating treatment if the declaration, direction or order to provide life-resuscitating treatment set forth in the valid POLST form was executed more recently than the issuance of the do-not-resuscitate identification.