Violations - Penalties.

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A. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, alters, or obliterates the advance directive for mental health treatment of another without the declarant's consent, or who falsifies or forges a revocation of an advance directive of another, shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

B. A person who in any way falsifies or forges the advance directive for mental health treatment of another person, or who willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of an advance directive for mental health treatment, shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

C. A person who requires or prohibits the execution of an advance directive for mental health treatment as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care services shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

D. A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another person to execute a declaration or revocation shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.

E. The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under any other law.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 251, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 470, eff. July 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 470 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.


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