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.
85 Acts, ch 3, §11; 2002 Acts, ch 1061, §9
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 144A - LIFE-SUSTAINING PROCEDURES
Section 144A.3 - Declaration relating to use of life-sustaining procedures.
Section 144A.4 - Revocation of declaration.
Section 144A.5 - Determination of terminal condition.
Section 144A.6 - Treatment of qualified patients.
Section 144A.7 - Procedure in absence of declaration.
Section 144A.7A - Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders.
Section 144A.8 - Transfer of patients.