450B.580 - Unlawful acts; penalty. - Nevada Statutes

450B.580  Unlawful acts; penalty.

      1.  It is unlawful for:

      (a) A person who administers emergency medical services to fail willfully to transfer a qualified patient in accordance with the provisions of NRS 450B.550.

      (b) A person purposely to conceal, cancel, deface or obliterate a do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient, unless it is done in compliance with a request of the qualified patient or a parent or legal guardian of the qualified patient to remove or destroy the do-not-resuscitate identification pursuant to NRS 450B.525 or 450B.530.

      (c) A person to falsify or forge the do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient or purposely to conceal or withhold personal knowledge of the revocation of a do-not-resuscitate identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding or withdrawal of life-resuscitating treatment.

      2.  A person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      (Added to NRS by 1997, 291; A 2001, 819)