Section 16-36-4-12 - Revocation of living will declaration or life prolonging procedures will declaration(a) A living will declaration or a life prolonging procedures will declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant by any of the following: (1) A signed, dated writing.(2) Physical cancellation or destruction of the declaration by the declarant or another in the declarant's presence and at the declarant's direction.(3) An oral expression of intent to revoke.(b) A revocation is effective when communicated to the attending physician.(c) No civil or criminal liability is imposed upon a person for failure to act upon a revocation unless the person had actual knowledge of the revocation.(d) The revocation of a life prolonging procedures will declaration is not evidence that the declarant desires to have life prolonging procedures withheld or withdrawn.Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-11-13.
As added by P.L. 2-1993, SEC.19.