2018 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.122 Natural death act.
70.122.090 Criminal conduct—Penalties.
RCW 70.122.090 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of the declarer, and thereby, because of any such act, directly causes life-sustaining treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to thereby be hastened, shall be subject to prosecution for murder in the first degree as defined in RCW 9A.32.030.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.
