2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 43A. Mental Health
§43A-11-113. Violations - Penalties.

43A OK Stat § 43A-11-113 (2014) What's This?

A. Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, alters, or obliterates the advance directive for mental health treatment of another without the declarant's consent, or who falsifies or forges a revocation of an advance directive of another, shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

B. A person who in any way falsifies or forges the advance directive for mental health treatment of another person, or who willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of an advance directive for mental health treatment, shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

C. A person who requires or prohibits the execution of an advance directive for mental health treatment as a condition for being insured for, or receiving, health care services shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a misdemeanor.

D. A person who coerces or fraudulently induces another person to execute a declaration or revocation shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony.

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

Added by Laws 1995, c. 251, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 470, eff. July 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 470 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.

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