144C.8  Forfeiture of designee’s authority.
  A designee shall forfeit all rights and authority under a declaration and all rights and authority under the declaration shall vest in and devolve upon an alternate designee, or if there is none, vest in and devolve pursuant to section 144C.5, under either of the following circumstances:
  1.  The designee is charged with murder in the first or second degree or voluntary manslaughter in connection with the declarant’s death and those charges are known to a third party.
  2.  The designee does not exercise the designee’s authority under the declaration within twenty-four hours of receiving notification of the death of the declarant or within forty hours of the declarant’s death, whichever is earlier.
2008 Acts, ch 1051, §13, 22