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