Texas § 166.084 ISSUANCE OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER BY NONWRITTEN COMMUNICATION.

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§ 166.084 — ISSUANCE OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER BY NONWRITTEN COMMUNICATION.

Texas § 166.084

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Tex. Health and Safety Code Code Ann. § 166.084 (2026).

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Sec. 166.084. ISSUANCE OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER BY NONWRITTEN COMMUNICATION.

(a)A competent person who is an adult may issue an out-of-hospital DNR order by nonwritten communication.

(b)A declarant must issue the nonwritten out-of-hospital DNR order in the presence of the attending physician and two witnesses who qualify under Section 166.003 , at least one of whom must be a witness who qualifies under Section 166.003 (2).

(c)The attending physician and witnesses shall sign the out-of-hospital DNR order in the place of the document provided by Section 166.083 (b)(7) and the attending physician shall sign the document in the place required by Section 166.083 (b)(13). The physician shall make the fact of the existence of the out-of-hospital DNR order a part of the declarant's medical

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Sec. 166.084. ISSUANCE OF OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR ORDER BY NONWRITTEN COMMUNICATION. (a) A competent person who is an adult may issue an out-of-hospital DNR order by nonwritten communication.
(b) A declarant must issue the nonwritten out-of-hospital DNR order in the presence of the attending physician and two witnesses who qualify under Section 166.003 , at least one of whom must be a witness who qualifies under Section 166.003 (2).
(c) The attending physician and witnesses shall sign the out-of-hospital DNR order in the place of the document provided by Section 166.083 (b)(7) and the attending physician shall sign the document in the place required by Section 166.083 (b)(13). The physician shall make the fact of the existence of the out-of-hospital DNR order a part of the declarant's medical record and the names of the witnesses shall be entered in the medical record.
(d) An out-of-hospital DNR order issued in the manner provided by this section is valid and shall be honored by responding health care professionals as if executed in the manner provided by Section 166.082 .

Legislative History

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 10, eff. June 16, 1995. Renumbered from Sec. 674.004 and amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 450, Sec. 1.04, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.