Title 31, Chapter 36, Section 9
( 31-36-9)
All persons shall be subject to the following sanctions in relation
to health care agencies, in addition to all other sanctions
applicable under any other law or rule of professional conduct: (1) Any person shall be civilly liable who, without the
principal's consent, willfully conceals, cancels, or alters a
health care agency or any amendment or revocation of the agency or
who falsifies or forges a health care agency, amendment, or
revocation; (2) A person who falsifies or forges a health care agency or
willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of an amendment
or revocation of a health care agency with the intent to cause a
withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining or death-delaying
procedures contrary to the intent of the principal and thereby,
because of such act, directly causes life-sustaining or
death-delaying procedures to be withheld or withdrawn, shall be
subject to prosecution for criminal homicide as provided for in
Chapter 5 of Title 16; and (3) Any person who requires or prevents execution of a health care
agency as a condition of ensuring or providing any type of health
care services to the patient shall be civilly liable and guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided by law. |