\n(a) A health care power of attorney may contain provisions relating to the appointment, resignation, removal and substitution of the health care agent.\n(b) If all health care agents named in the instrument or substituted, die or for any reason fail or refuse to act, and all methods of substitution have been exhausted, the health care power of attorney shall cease to be effective. (1991, c. 639, s. 1.)
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