2006 Utah Code - 75-2-1115 — Illegal destruction or falsification of directive.

     75-2-1115.   Illegal destruction or falsification of directive.
     (1) A person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages a directive of another without the declarant's consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the directive of another is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
     (2) A person who falsifies or forges the directive of another or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of a directive with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures contrary to the wishes of a declarant, and because of this action directly causes life-sustaining procedures to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened is guilty of criminal homicide.

Amended by Chapter 241, 1991 General Session