2504 - Enabling certain persons to consent for certain medical, dental, health and hospital services.

§  2504.  Enabling  certain  persons  to  consent for certain medical,  dental, health and hospital services. 1.  Any  person  who  is  eighteen  years  of  age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married, may  give effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services  for himself or herself, and the consent of  no  other  person  shall  be  necessary.    2.  Any  person who has been married or who has borne a child may give  effective consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services  for  his  or  her child. Any person who has been designated pursuant to title  fifteen-A of article five of the general obligations law as a person  in  parental  relation to a child may consent to any medical, dental, health  and hospital services for such child  for  which  consent  is  otherwise  required  which  are  not:  (a)  major  medical  treatment as defined in  subdivision (a)  of  section  80.03  of  the  mental  hygiene  law;  (b)  electroconvulsive  therapy;  or  (c) the withdrawal or discontinuance of  medical treatment which is sustaining life functions.    3. Any person who is pregnant may give effective consent for  medical,  dental, health and hospital services relating to prenatal care.    4.  Medical,  dental,  health and hospital services may be rendered to  persons of any age without the consent of a  parent  or  legal  guardian  when,  in the physician's judgment an emergency exists and the person is  in immediate need of medical attention and an attempt to secure  consent  would  result in delay of treatment which would increase the risk to the  person's life or health.    5. Where not otherwise already authorized by law to do so, any  person  in  a  parental  relation  to  a  child as defined in section twenty-one  hundred sixty-four of this chapter and,  (i)  a  grandparent,  an  adult  brother  or sister, an adult aunt or uncle, any of whom has assumed care  of the child and, (ii) an adult who  has  care  of  the  child  and  has  written authorization to consent from a person in a parental relation to  a  child  as  defined  in  section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of this  chapter, may give effective consent for the  immunization  of  a  child.  However,  a  person  other  than one in a parental relation to the child  shall not give consent under this subdivision if he or she has reason to  believe that a person in parental relation to the child  as  defined  in  section  twenty-one  hundred  sixty-four  of this chapter objects to the  immunization.    6. Anyone who acts in good faith based  on  the  representation  by  a  person  that  he  is  eligible  to consent pursuant to the terms of this  section shall be deemed to have received effective consent.