Acts constituting unprofessional conduct - Acts constituting felonies - Sanctions.

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A. A physician or other health care provider who willfully fails to arrange the care of a patient in accordance with Section 3101.9 of this title shall be guilty of unprofessional conduct.

B. A physician who willfully fails to record the determination of the patient's condition in accordance with Section 3101.7 of this title shall be guilty of unprofessional conduct.

C. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, alters, or obliterates the advance directive of another without the declarant's consent, or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the advance directive of another shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.

D. A person who in any way falsifies or forges the advance directive of another, or who willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in Section 3101.6 of this title shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.

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

F. A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute an advance directive or revocation shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.

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

Added by Laws 1992, c. 114, § 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 2006, c. 171, § 10, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.


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