New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 2991. Creation and use of proxies in residential health care and mental hygiene facilities

(a) to provide information to adult residents about their right to create a health care proxy under this article;

(b) to educate adult residents about the authority delegated under a health care proxy, what a proxy may include or omit, and how a proxy is created and revoked;

(c) to help ensure that each resident who creates a proxy while residing at the facility does so voluntarily.