§ 35-22-304 — Duty to comply; immunity; effect on criminal charges against another person

(a) Emergency medical service personnel in emergency
situations if they are aware of the person's psychiatric advance
directive, psychiatric personnel, health care providers and
health care facilities shall comply with a person's psychiatric
advance directive to the extent medically indicated.
(b) Any emergency medical service personnel, psychiatric
personnel, health care provider, health care facility or any
other person who, reasonably and in good faith, complies with a
psychiatric advance directive shall not be subject to civil or
criminal liability or regulatory sanction for such compliance.
(c) Compliance by emergency medical service personnel,
psychiatric personnel, health care providers or health care
facilities with a psychiatric advance directive shall not affect
the criminal prosecution of any person otherwise charged with
the commission of a criminal act.
(d) In the absence of a psychiatric advance directive, a
person's consent to psychiatric restabilization measures shall
not be presumed.