<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><slim:Document xmlns:slim="urn:legix:slim" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:atipl="http://www.arbortext.com/namespace/PageLayout" class="codeChapter" id="chp144G" name="144G"><slim:About class="header"><slim:Property type="string" name="checkinTime">07/31/2020 10:58</slim:Property><slim:Property type="string" name="taskInfo">1035:CAA118CE-9354-424E-AECC-6753576CEC8B</slim:Property><slim:Property type="string" name="version">2</slim:Property></slim:About><slim:TOC><slim:Item idref="sec144G.1" title="144G.1   Withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from minor child  court intervention."/></slim:TOC><slim:Body><slim:Level class="codeChapter" id="chp144G"><slim:Heading class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">144G</xhtml:span><xhtml:span class="headnote">WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING PROCEDURES — MINORS</xhtml:span></slim:Heading><slim:Section class="codeSection" id="sec144G.1"><xhtml:div class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">144G.1</xhtml:span><xhtml:span class="headnote">Withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from minor child <xhtml:span class="em-dash"/> court intervention.</xhtml:span></xhtml:div><xhtml:div class="subsection"><xhtml:div class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">1</xhtml:span></xhtml:div><xhtml:p class="para">A court of law or equity shall not have the authority to require the withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a minor child over the objection of the minor child’s parent or guardian, unless there is conclusive medical evidence that the minor child has died and any electronic brain, heart, or respiratory monitoring activity exhibited to the contrary is a false artifact. </xhtml:p></xhtml:div><xhtml:div class="subsection"><xhtml:div class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">2</xhtml:span></xhtml:div><xhtml:p class="para">For the purposes of <xhtml:span class="iowaCodeRef">this section</xhtml:span>:</xhtml:p><xhtml:div class="letteredPara"><xhtml:div class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">a</xhtml:span></xhtml:div><xhtml:p class="para"><xhtml:span class="term">“Life-sustaining procedure”</xhtml:span> means the same as defined in <xhtml:span class="iowaCodeRef">section 144A.2</xhtml:span>.</xhtml:p></xhtml:div><xhtml:div class="letteredPara"><xhtml:div class="heading"><xhtml:span class="identifier">b</xhtml:span></xhtml:div><xhtml:p class="para"><xhtml:span class="term">“Minor”</xhtml:span> means the same as specified in <xhtml:span class="iowaCodeRef">section 599.1</xhtml:span>.</xhtml:p></xhtml:div></xhtml:div><xhtml:div class="history"><xhtml:div class="historyItem"><xhtml:span class="iowaActsRef">2020 Acts, ch 1110, §1</xhtml:span></xhtml:div></xhtml:div></slim:Section></slim:Level></slim:Body></slim:Document>