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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 162A.850 (2026)

Agents: Prohibited acts; decisions concerning use or nonuse of life-sustaining treatment

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NRS 162A.850  Agents: Prohibited acts; decisions concerning use or nonuse of life-sustaining treatment.

      1.  The agent may not consent to:

      (a) Commitment or placement of the principal in a facility for treatment of mental illness;

      (b) Convulsive treatment;

      (c) Psychosurgery;

      (d) Sterilization;

      (e) Abortion;

      (f) Aversive intervention, as that term is defined in NRS 449A.203;

      (g) Experimental medical, biomedical or behavioral treatment, or participation in any medical, biomedical or behavioral research program; or

      (h) Any other treatment to which the principal, in the power of attorney for health care, states that the agent may not consent.

      2.  The agent must make decisions concerning the use or nonuse of life-sustaining treatment which conform to the known desires of the principal. The principal may make these desires known in the power of attorney for health care.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 200)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2013–2013 · leading case: Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013).
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Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013). “§ 31-32-14(b) (2009); Nev.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 162A.850(l)(e) (2009); N.”
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 162A.850(l)(e): 1 case
Ankrom v. State, 152 So. 3d 397 (Ala. 2013). “§ 31-32-14(b) (2009); Nev.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 162A.850(l)(e) (2009); N.”
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