<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id8d3f4dcb-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff"><num value="3058ff">§ 3058ff.</num><heading> Rule of construction</heading>
<chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to interfere with or abridge the right of an older individual to practice the individual’s religion through reliance on prayer alone for healing, in a case in which a decision to so practice the religion—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id8d3f74dc-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><chapeau> is contemporaneously expressed by the older individual—</chapeau><subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I13" class="indent2" id="id8d3f74dd-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/1/A"><num value="A">(A)</num><content> either orally or in writing;</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I13" class="indent2" id="id8d3f74de-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/1/B"><num value="B">(B)</num><content> with respect to a specific illness or injury that the older individual has at the time of the decision; and</content>
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<subparagraph style="-uslm-lc:I13" class="indent2" id="id8d3f74df-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/1/C"><num value="C">(C)</num><content> when the older individual is competent to make the decision;</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id8d3f74e0-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> is set forth prior to the occurrence of the illness or injury in a living will, health care proxy, or other advance directive document that is validly executed and applied under State law; or</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id8d3f74e1-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f" identifier="/us/usc/t42/s3058ff/3"><num value="3">(3)</num><content> may be unambiguously deduced from the older individual’s life history.</content>
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<sourceCredit id="id8d3f74e2-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f">(<ref href="/us/pl/89/73/tVII/s765">Pub. L. 89–73, title VII, § 765</ref>, as added <ref href="/us/pl/109/365/tVII/s705">Pub. L. 109–365, title VII, § 705</ref>, <date date="2006-10-17">Oct. 17, 2006</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/120/2594">120 Stat. 2594</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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