South Dakota Statutes

§ 34-12D-18 — Patients able to make decisions regarding medical care--Effect upon rights.

South Dakota·Title 34 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY·Ch. 34-12C LIVING WILLS

This chapter does not affect the right of a patient to make decisions regarding the use of life - sustaining treatment, so long as the patient is able to do so, or impair or supersede a right or responsibility that a person has to effect the withdrawal or withholding of medical care.

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Legislative History

SL 1991, ch 273, § 17.

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