449.660 - Penalties. - Nevada Statutes

449.660  Penalties.

      1.  A physician or other provider of health care who willfully fails to transfer the care of a patient in accordance with NRS 449.628 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      2.  A physician who willfully fails to record a determination of terminal condition or the terms of a declaration in accordance with NRS 449.622 is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      3.  A person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces or obliterates the declaration of another without the declarant’s consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the declaration of another is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      4.  A person who falsifies or forges the declaration of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment contrary to the wishes of the declarant and thereby directly causes life-sustaining treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened is guilty of murder.

      5.  A person who requires or prohibits the execution of a declaration as a condition of being insured for, or receiving, health care is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      6.  A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a declaration, or who falsifies or forges the declaration of another except as provided in subsection 4, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      7.  The penalties provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under other law.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 761; A 1991, 636)