Effective: July 9, 1998
Latest Legislation: House Bill 354 - 122nd General Assembly
(A)(1) No physician shall purposely prevent or attempt to prevent, or delay or unreasonably attempt to delay, the transfer of a patient in violation of division (B) of section 2133.23 of the Revised Code.
(2) No person shall purposely conceal, cancel, deface, or obliterate the DNR identification of another person without the consent of the other person.
(3) No person shall purposely falsify or forge a revocation of a declaration that is the basis of the DNR identification of another person or purposely falsify or forge an order of a physician that purports to supersede a do-not-resuscitate order issued for another person.
(4) No person shall purposely falsify or forge the DNR identification of another person with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of CPR for the other person.
(5) No person who has personal knowledge that another person has revoked a declaration that is the basis of the other person's DNR identification or personal knowledge that a physician has issued an order that supersedes a do-not-resuscitate order that the physician issued for another person shall purposely conceal or withhold that personal knowledge with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of CPR for the other person.
(B)(1) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (5) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(2) Whoever violates division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Section 2133.01 | Modified Uniform Rights of Terminally Ill Act Definitions.
Section 2133.02 | Declaration Relating to Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Section 2133.03 | When Declaration Operative.
Section 2133.04 | Revocation of Declaration.
Section 2133.05 | Duty of Attending Physician.
Section 2133.06 | Patient to Make Decisions on Use of Life-Sustaining Treatment.
Section 2133.07 | Using Pre-Printed Form.
Section 2133.08 | Consenting to Withholding or Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment From Patient.
Section 2133.10 | Transfer of Patients.
Section 2133.12 | Miscellaneous Provisions.
Section 2133.13 | When Health Care Provider May Presume Validity of Declaration.
Section 2133.14 | Recognition of Declaration Executed in Another State.
Section 2133.15 | Document Executed Prior to Effective Date of Provisions.
Section 2133.21 | Dnr Identification and Do-Not-Resuscitate Order Law Definitions.
Section 2133.211 | Authority and Immunity of Nurses and Physician Assistants.
Section 2133.23 | Compliance With Dnr Order.