Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5154--C
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 5, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities -- reported favorably from said committee,
ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a second
report and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
second report -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to enacting "Peter
Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Peter Falk's
2 law".
3 § 2. Subdivision (c) of section 81.16 of the mental hygiene law is
4 amended by adding three new paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 to read as follows:
5 4. The order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to
6 receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, the intended dispo-
7 sition of the remains of the decedent, funeral arrangements and final
8 resting place when that information is known or can be reasonably ascer-
9 tained by the guardian.
10 5. The order of appointment may identify the person or persons enti-
11 tled to notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical
12 facility.
13 6. The order of appointment may identify the persons entitled to visit
14 the incapacitated person, if they so choose. However, the identification
15 of such persons in the order shall in no way limit the persons entitled
16 to visit the incapacitated person.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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