HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Disabled Individuals - Consent to Medical or Dental Care

FOR the purpose of providing that certain health care providers
may treat a disabled individual without consent under
certain circumstances; defining certain terms; providing
that certain persons in a certain priority may consent to
medical or dental care for a disabled individual under
certain circumstances; exempting a health care provider from
civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary
action for treating a disabled individual without certain
consent of the individual; providing for permitted and
prohibited ways of obtaining substituted consent under this
Act; and generally relating to obtaining consent to medical
or dental care for disabled individuals.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Health - General

Section 20-107

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1982 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article

Health - General

20-107.

(a) (1) IN THIS SECTION THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE
MEANINGS INDICATED.

(2) [In this section, "disabled] "DISABLED
individual" means an individual who lacks sufficient
understanding or capacity to make or communicate a responsible
decision on health care for the individual because of:

[(1)]    (I) A physical disability;

[(2)]    (II) Habitual-drunkenness CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM;

[(3)]    (III) Drug addiction;

[(4)]    (IV) A disease; or

[(5)]    (V) A mental disability, including senility.

(3) "HEALTH CARE PROVIDER" MEANS ANY OF THE FOLLOWING
PERSONS LICENSED OR AUTHORIZED TO PROVIDE ONE 1 OR MORE HEALTH
CARE SERVICES IN THE STATE:

(I) A CHIROPRACTOR.