Part 5, Section 8
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care

When someone needs another person to make decisions for their health care should they become incapacitated, they would sign a Durable Power of Attorney for Heath Care. 

This document requires either the signatures of two witnesses to the signing (one of whom must have no relation to the signer) or be acknowledged before a notary public.  If you are acknowledging a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, all of the normal notarial procedures apply.  You must verify the signer’s identity and complete the appropriate notarial certificate and journal entry, and obtain a right thumbprint of the signer.  Government Code § 8206 

Although not always the case, these documents are usually signed in a hospital or nursing care facility, and normally on a pre-printed form that already has a notarial certificate.
 

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