CA Prob Code Section 4734

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“While advance directives can be patients’ last resort to attain a peaceful and timely dying consistent with their lifelong values, success depends on their being effective and acceptable.”
 
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A health care provider may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision for reasons of conscience.

(b)

A health care institution may decline to comply with an individual health care instruction or health care decision if the instruction or decision is contrary to a policy of the institution that is expressly based on reasons of conscience and if the policy was timely communicated to the patient or to a person then authorized to make health care decisions for the patient.

Source: Section 4734, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=PROB§ionNum=4734.­.

Last Updated

Aug. 30, 2023

§ 4734’s source at ca​.gov