Current through 2024, c. 127
Section 145C.13 - PENALTIESSubdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor offenses.Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor:
(1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a health care directive of a principal without the consent of the principal;(2) willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of a health care directive;(3) falsifies or forges a health care directive or a revocation of the instrument;(4) coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a health care directive; or(5) requires or prohibits the execution of a health care directive as a condition for being insured for or receiving all or some health care services.Subd. 2.Felony offenses.Whoever commits an act prohibited under subdivision 1 is guilty of a felony if the act results in bodily harm to the principal or to the person who would have been a principal but for the unlawful act.
1993 c 312 s 14; 1998 c 399 s 25