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          SUMMARY OF STATE LIVING WILL LEGISLATION

UTAH

Synopsis: 
To prepare a living will using the State of Utah recommended
form, please select living will preparation from the opening
menu.  Remember that we recommend preparing a "uniform" living
will in addition to the form suggested with by the State of Utah.
Please also consider executing a living will for any State that
you spend more than a few weeks per year, or where you are a
temporary resident.

Statute number: Utah Code Section 75-2-1101
Statute title: "Utah Personal Choice and Living Will Act"

Governmental Agency to contact for more information: None
specified

A specific form of living will is suggested

Number: 2 
Relationship: Witnesses may not be related by blood or marriage,
may not be directly responsible for the medical costs of the
declarant, may not be entitled to any part of the declarant's
estate whether under will or intestacy, may not be an agent of 
a hospital in which the declarant is a patient; and must be over
18 years of age.

Recording of the living will is not provided for by statute

Revocation of the living will may be made physical destruction
of the declaration (by tearing, defacing, burning, etc.); or
by a separate written instrument.  It may be verbally revoked if
a witness to the verbal revocation makes a written statement that
he or she witnessed the revocation