404.815. Physician, health care facility, not to serve as attorney in fact--exceptions. - Missouri Statutes

Physician, health care facility, not to serve as attorney infact--exceptions.

404.815. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to thecontrary, an attending physician or an employee of the attendingphysician, or an owner, operator or employee of a health carefacility in which the patient is a resident, shall not serve asan attorney in fact unless:

(1) The patient and attorney in fact are related byaffinity or consanguinity within the second degree;

(2) The patient and attorney in fact are members of thesame community of persons who are bound by vows to a religiouslife and who conduct or assist in the conducting of religiousservices and actually and regularly engage in religious,benevolent, charitable, or educational ministry, or theperformance of health care services.

(L. 1991 S.B. 148)