§ 5-604. Revocation of an advance directive

   (a) Signed and dated writing. -- An advance directive may be revoked at any time by a declarant by a signed and dated written or electronic document, by physical cancellation or destruction, by an oral statement to a health care practitioner or by the execution of a subsequent directive.

(b) Oral statement. -- If a declarant revokes an advance directive by an oral statement to a health care practitioner, the practitioner and a witness to the oral revocation shall document the substance of the oral revocation in the declarant's medical record.

(c) Notification. -- It shall be the responsibility of the declarant, to the extent reasonably possible, to notify any person to whom the declarant has provided a copy of the directive.

HISTORY: 1993, ch. 372, § 2; 2000, ch. 553; 2008, ch. 79, § 2.