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§43A-11-113.
§43A-11-113.
A. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, alters, or
obliterates the advance directive for mental health treatment of
another without the declarant's consent, or who falsifies or forges a
revocation of an advance directive of another, shall be, upon
conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. A person who in any way falsifies or forges the advance directive
for mental health treatment of another person, or who willfully
conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of an advance
directive for mental health treatment, shall be, upon conviction,
guilty of a misdemeanor.
C. A person who requires or prohibits the execution of an advance
directive for mental health treatment as a condition for being insured
for, or receiving, health care services shall be, upon conviction,
guilty of a misdemeanor.
D. A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another person to
execute a declaration or revocation shall be, upon conviction, guilty
of a felony.
E. The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any sanction
applicable under any other law.
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