§ 58-1072.1. Attributes of durable power of attorney - Authority granted.

A.  The durable power of attorney may show or state:

1.  The fact of execution under the provisions of the Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act;

2.  The time and conditions under which the power is to become effective;

3.  The extent and scope of the powers conferred; and

4.  Who is to exercise the power, including any successor attorney-in-fact if a prior appointed attorney-in-fact dies, ceases to act, refuses or is unable to serve, or resigns.

B.  The power may grant complete or limited authority with respect to the principal's:

1.  Person, including, but not limited to, health and medical care decisions and a do-not-resuscitate consent on the principal's behalf, but excluding:

a.the execution, on behalf of the principal, of a Directive to Physicians, an Advance Directive for Health Care, Living Will, or other document purporting to authorize life-sustaining treatment decisions, and

b.the making of life-sustaining treatment decisions unless the power complies with the requirements for a health care proxy under the Oklahoma Rights of the Terminally Ill or Persistently Unconscious Act or the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act; and

2.  Property, including homestead property, whether real, personal, intangible or mixed.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 274, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.  Amended by Laws 1993, c. 345, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 327, § 16, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.