39-4511 REVOCATION. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 45

THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT

39-4511. Revocation. (1) A living will and durable power of attorney for health care or physician orders for scope of treatment (POST) form may be revoked at any time by the maker thereof by any of the following methods:

(a) By being canceled, defaced, obliterated or burned, torn, or otherwise destroyed by the maker thereof, or by some person in his presence and by his direction;

(b) By a written, signed revocation of the maker thereof expressing his intent to revoke; or

(c) By an oral expression by the maker thereof expressing his intent to revoke.

(2) The maker of the revoked living will and durable power of attorney for health care is responsible for notifying his physician of the revocation.

(3) There shall be no criminal or civil liability on the part of any person for the failure to act upon a revocation of a living will and durable power of attorney for health care or physician orders for scope of treatment (POST) form made pursuant to this section unless that person has actual knowledge of the revocation.