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2017 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 154. Advance directives.
154.15 Penalties.
Universal Citation: WI Stat § 154.15 (2017)
154.15 Penalties.
(1) Any person who intentionally conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates or damages the declaration of another without the declarant's consent may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 30 days or both.
(2) Any person who, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures or feeding tubes contrary to the wishes of the declarant, illegally falsifies or forges the declaration of another or conceals a declaration revoked under s. 154.05 (1) (a) or (b) or any person who intentionally withholds actual knowledge of a revocation under s. 154.05 is guilty of a Class F felony.
History: 1983 a. 202; 1985 a. 199; 1991 a. 84; 1995 a. 168; 1997 a. 283; 2001 a. 109.
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