Colorado Statute
15-14-506. Medical durable power of attorney.
Statute text
(1) The authority of an agent to act on behalf of the principal in consenting to or refusing
medical treatment, including artificial nourishment and hydration, may be set forth in a
medical durable power of attorney. A medical durable power of attorney may include any
directive, condition, or limitation of an agent's authority.
(2) The agent shall act in accordance with the terms, directives, conditions, or limitations
stated in the medical durable power of attorney, and in conformance with the principal's
wishes that are known to the agent. If the medical durable power of attorney contains no
directives, conditions, or limitations relating to the principal's medical condition, or if the
principal's wishes are not otherwise known to the agent, the agent shall act in accordance
with the best interests of the principal as determined by the agent.
(3) An agent appointed in a medical durable power of attorney may provide informed
consent to or refusal of medical treatment on behalf of a principal who lacks decisional
capacity and shall have the same power to make medical treatment decisions the principal
would have if the principal did not lack such decisional capacity. An agent appointed in a
medical durable power of attorney shall be considered a designated representative of the
patient and shall have the same rights of access to the principal's medical records as the
principal. In making medical treatment decisions on behalf of the principal, and subject to
the terms of the medical durable power of attorney, the agent shall confer with the
principal's attending physician concerning the principal's medical condition.
(3.5) Any medical durable power of attorney executed under sections 15-14-503 to 15-
14-509 may also have a document with a written statement as provided in section 12-34-
105 (1) (c), C.R.S., or a statement in substantially similar form, indicating a decision
regarding organ and tissue donation