Section 333.20969 - Objection to treatment or transportation.
PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978
333.20969 Objection to treatment or transportation.
Sec. 20969.
This part and the rules promulgated under this part do not authorize medical treatment for or transportation to a hospital of an individual who objects to the treatment or transportation. However, if emergency medical services personnel, exercising professional judgment, determine that the individual's condition makes the individual incapable of competently objecting to treatment or transportation, emergency medical services may provide treatment or transportation despite the individual's objection unless the objection is expressly based on the individual's religious beliefs.
History: Add. 1990, Act 179, Imd. Eff. July 2, 1990
Popular Name: Act 368