(755 ILCS 45/4-5) (from Ch. 110 1/2, par. 804-5)
Sec. 4-5. Limitations on health care agencies. Neither the attending
physician nor any other health care provider or health care professional may act as agent under a
health care agency; however, a person who is not administering health
care to the patient may act as health care agent for the patient even
though the person is a physician or otherwise licensed, certified,
authorized, or permitted by law to administer health care in the ordinary
course of business or the practice of a profession.
(Source: P.A. 98-1113, eff. 1-1-15.)
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