Arkansas Code § 20-17-209 - Penalties

(a) A physician or other health care provider who willfully fails to transfer in accordance with § 20-17-207 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(b) A physician who willfully fails to record the determination of terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness in accordance with § 20-17-205 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(c) An individual 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 Class A misdemeanor.

(d) An individual who falsifies or forges the declaration of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in § 20-17-204, is guilty of a Class D felony.

(e) An individual who requires or prohibits the execution of a declaration as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care services is guilty of a Class D felony.

(f) A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a declaration under this subchapter is guilty of a Class D felony.

(g) The sanctions provided in this section do not displace any sanction applicable under other law.

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