048-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-1

Current through April 27, 2019
Section 1-1 - Purpose

The Department of Health has promulgated these regulations relating to psychiatric advance directives to ensure the timely and appropriate implementation and application of the Wyoming Psychiatric Advance Directives Statute.

(a) Any adult who has decisional capacity to provide informed consent to or refusal of psychiatric restabilization measures or any other person who is, pursuant to the laws of this state or any other state, authorized to consent to or refuse psychiatric restabilization measures on behalf of a person who lacks the decisional capacity, may execute a psychiatric advance directive. The principles of autonomy and personal dignity of the person having capacity are morally and ethically binding for physicians and other health care providers.

048-1 Wyo. Code R. § 1-1