§ 40:1151.8 — Penalties

Louisiana § 40:1151.8

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 40: Public Health and Safety

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§1151.8. Penalties
A. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the
declaration of another, including the removal of a do-not-resuscitate identification bracelet,
without such declarant's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation or the declaration of
another shall be civilly liable.
B. Any person who falsifies or forges the declaration of another or willfully conceals
or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of a declaration with the intent to cause the
withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures contrary to the wishes of the
declarant, and thereby because of such act directly causes life-sustaining procedures to be
withheld or withdrawn and death thereby to be hastened may be subject to prosecution under
Title 14 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

Legislative History

Acts 1984, No. 382, §1; Acts 1999, No. 641, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1299.58.9 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.