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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-610" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Health Care Decisions Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the advance directive of another without the declarant’s or patient’s consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the advance directive of another, thereby causing life-sustaining procedures to be utilized in contravention of the previously expressed intent of the patient, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or both.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Any person who falsifies or forges the advance directive of another, or falsifies or forges an affidavit under § 5-605 of this subtitle, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of an advance directive with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures, contrary to the wishes of the declarant and thereby, because of such act, directly causes life-sustaining procedures to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or both.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The penalties provided in this section shall be in addition to any other penalties provided by law.</text>
  </level>
</section>
