144A.10 - PENALTIES.
144A.10 PENALTIES.
1. Any person who willfully conceals, withholds, cancels,
destroys, alters, defaces, or obliterates the declaration,
out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order, or out-of-hospital
do-not-resuscitate identifier of another without the declarant's or
patient's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the
declaration or out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order of another is
guilty of a serious misdemeanor.
2. Any person who falsifies or forges the declaration or
out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order of another, or willfully
conceals or withholds personal knowledge of or delivery of a
revocation as provided in section 144A.4 or 144A.7A, with the intent
to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures,
is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 3, §11; 2002 Acts, ch 1061, §9