Louisiana § 40:1079.1 Medical treatment

Louisiana Statutes

§ 40:1079.1 — Medical treatment

Louisiana § 40:1079.1

Title 40Public Health and Safety

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Bluebook

La. Stat. Ann. § 40:1079.1 (2026).

Text

§1079.1. Medical treatment A.

(1)Consent to the provision of medical or surgical care or services by a hospital or public clinic, or to the performance of medical or surgical care or services by a physician, licensed to practice medicine in this state, when executed by a minor who is or believes himself to be afflicted with an illness or disease, shall be valid and binding as if the minor had achieved his majority. Any such consent shall not be subject to a later disaffirmance by reason of his minority.

(2)A minor may consent to medical care or the administration of medication by a hospital licensed to provide hospital services or by a physician licensed to practice medicine in this state for the purpose of alleviating or reducing pain, discomfort, or distress of and during labor and chil

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§1079.1. Medical treatment
A.(1) Consent to the provision of medical or surgical care or services by a hospital
or public clinic, or to the performance of medical or surgical care or services by a physician,
licensed to practice medicine in this state, when executed by a minor who is or believes
himself to be afflicted with an illness or disease, shall be valid and binding as if the minor
had achieved his majority. Any such consent shall not be subject to a later disaffirmance by
reason of his minority.
(2) A minor may consent to medical care or the administration of medication by a
hospital licensed to provide hospital services or by a physician licensed to practice medicine
in this state for the purpose of alleviating or reducing pain, discomfort, or distress of and
during labor and childbirth. The manner of administration of medications includes but is not
limited to intravenous, intramuscular, epidural, and spinal. This consent shall be valid and
binding as if the minor had achieved her majority, and it shall not be subject to a later
disaffirmance by reason of her minority.
B. The consent of a spouse, parent, guardian, or any other person standing in a
fiduciary capacity to the minor shall not be necessary in order to authorize such hospital care
or services or medical or surgical care or services, or administration of drugs to be provided
by a physician licensed to practice medicine to such a minor.
C. Upon the advice and direction of a treating physician, or, in the case of a medical
staff, any one of them, a physician or member of a medical staff may, but shall not be
obligated to, inform the spouse, parent or guardian of any such minor as to the treatment
given or needed, and such information may be given to, or withheld from the spouse, parent
or guardian without the consent and over the express objection of the minor.
D. No hospital and no physician licensed to practice medicine in this state shall incur
civil or criminal liability in connection with any examination, diagnosis and treatment
authorized by this Section except for negligence.

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1972, No. 182, §1; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 18, §2, eff. July 6, 1994; Acts 2001, No. 884, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1095 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.