235B.12 - CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
235B.12 CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
1. Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain
dependent adult abuse information under false pretenses, or who
willfully communicates or seeks to communicate dependent adult abuse
information to any person except in accordance with sections 235B.6
through 235B.8, or any person connected with any research authorized
pursuant to section 235B.6 who willfully falsifies dependent adult
abuse information or any records relating to the information is
guilty of a serious misdemeanor. Any person who knowingly, but
without criminal purposes, communicates or seeks to communicate
dependent adult abuse information except in accordance with sections
235B.6 through 235B.8 is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
2. Any reasonable grounds for belief that a person has violated
any provision of this chapter is grounds for the immediate withdrawal
of any authorized access the person might otherwise have to dependent
adult abuse information. Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 231, §12
Referred to in § 235B.4, 235B.8, 235B.10, 235E.2, 235E.4