70.122.090 - Criminal conduct -- Penalties. - Washington Statutes

Criminal conduct — Penalties.

(1) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the directive of another without such declarer's consent is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

     (2) Any person who falsifies or forges the directive of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in RCW 70.122.040 with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment contrary to the wishes of the declarer, and thereby, because of any such act, directly causes life-sustaining treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to thereby be hastened, shall be subject to prosecution for murder in the first degree as defined in RCW 9A.32.030.

[2003 c 53 § 362; 1992 c 98 § 9; 1979 c 112 § 9.]

Notes: Intent -- Effective date -- 2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.