Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1151.8 – Penalties
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1151.8
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Declarant: means a person who has executed a declaration as defined herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1151.1
- Declaration: means a witnessed document, statement, or expression voluntarily made by the declarant, authorizing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures, in accordance with the requirements of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1151.1
- Do-not-resuscitate identification bracelet: means a standardized bracelet as described in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1151.1
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wishes of the declarant, and thereby because of such act directly causes life-sustaining procedures to be withheld or withdrawn and death thereby to be hastened may be subject to prosecution under Title 14 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
Acts 1984, No. 382, §1; Acts 1999, No. 641, §1, eff. July 1, 1999; Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 40:1299.58.9 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.