Indiana § 16-36-6-5 - "Qualified person"
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§ 16-36-6-5. "Qualified person"
Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "qualified person" refers to an individual who has at least one (1) of the following:
(1) An advanced chronic progressive illness.
(2) An advanced chronic progressive frailty.
(3) A condition caused by injury, disease, or illness from which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty:
(A) there can be no recovery; and
(B) death will occur from the condition within a short period without the provision of life prolonging procedures.
(4) A medical condition that, if the person were to suffer cardiac or pulmonary failure, resuscitation would be unsuccessful or within a short period the person would experience repeated cardiac or pulmonary failure resulting in death.
As added by P.L.164-2013, SEC.8.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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