145C.13 PENALTIES. Subdivision 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. History: 1993 c 312 s 14; 1998 c 399 s 25
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