§ 32A-32. Duration of authorization; revocation. - North Carolina Statutes

§32A‑32.  Duration of authorization; revocation.

(a)        An authorization toconsent to health care for minor shall be automatically revoked as follows:

(1)        If the authorizationto consent to health care for minor specifies a date after which it shall notbe effective, then the authorization shall be automatically revoked upon suchdate.

(2)        An authorization toconsent to health care for minor shall be revoked upon the minor child'sattainment of the age of 18 years or upon the minor child's emancipation.

(3)        An authorization toconsent to health care for minor executed by a custodial parent shall berevoked upon the termination of such custodial parent's rights to custody ofthe minor child.

(b)        An authorization toconsent to health care for minor may be revoked at any time by the custodialparent making such authorization.  The custodial parent may exercise such rightof revocation by executing and acknowledging an instrument of revocation, byexecuting and acknowledging a subsequent authorization to consent to healthcare for the minor, or in any other manner in which the custodial parent isable to communicate the parent's intent to revoke.  Such revocation shallbecome effective only upon communication by the custodial parent to the agentnamed in the revoked authorization.

(c)        In the event of adisagreement regarding the health care for a minor child between two or moreagents authorized pursuant to this Article to consent to and authorize healthcare for a minor, or between any such agent and a parent of the minor, whetheror not the parent is a custodial parent, then any authorization to consent tohealth care for minor designating any person as an agent shall be revokedduring the period of such disagreement, and the provisions of health care forthe minor during such period shall be governed by the common law, theprovisions of Article 1A of Chapter 90, and other provisions of law, as if noauthorization to consent to health care for minor had been executed.

(d)        An authorization toconsent to health care for minor shall not be affected by the subsequentincapacity or mental incompetence of the custodial parent making suchauthorization. (1993, c. 150, s. 1.)