Penalties

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  • (a) A physician or other health-care provider who willfully fails to transfer the care of a patient in accordance with section 193 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined $500 or imprisoned for a period of not more than one year.

  • (b) A physician who willfully fails to record the determination of terminal condition in accordance with section 190 of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

  • (c) An individual who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates the declaration of another without the declarant's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the declaration of another is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined $200 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

  • (d) An individual who falsifies or forges the declaration of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in section 189 of this title, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined $200 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

  • (e) A person who requires or prohibits the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health-care services is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

  • (f) A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a declaration under this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined $500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

  • (g) The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any other sanctions applicable under any other law.


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