Illinois Code § 755 ILCS 43/45

Principal's wishes must be followed.
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(1) The physician or provider may subject the principal to mental health
treatment in a manner contrary to the principal's wishes as expressed in a
declaration for mental health treatment only:

 
 
(a) When a court order contradicts the principal's 
 
wishes as specified in the declaration; or

 
 
(b) In cases of emergency endangering life or health.

 
(2) A declaration does not limit any authority provided in Sections 3-100
through 3-910 of the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code either
to take a person into custody, or to admit, retain, or treat a person in a
health care facility.

wishes as specified in the declaration; or

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