No emergency medical service personnel may be subject to civil liability, based solely upon failure to obtain consent in rendering emergency medical services to any individual regardless of age where the patient is unable to give his or her consent for any reason, including minority, and where there is no other person reasonably available who is legally authorized to consent to the providing of such care or who is legally authoriezed to refuse to consent to the providing of such care. Nothing in this article may be construed to require medical treatment or transportation for any adult in contravention of his or her stated objection thereto uupon religious grounds or pursuant to any living will or do not resuscitate orders: Provided, That the emergency medical service provider is actually aware of the living will otr do not resuscitate order.
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