§ 145C.13 — Penalties
Plain-Language Summary
This section says that following a health care directive that leads to death is not considered suicide, assisted suicide, or mercy killing under Minnesota law.
145C.13 PENALTIES.
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Subdivision 1.Gross misdemeanor offenses.
Whoever commits any of the following acts is guilty of a gross misdemeanor:
(1) willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates a health care directive of a principal without the consent of the principal;
(2) willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of a health care directive;
(3) falsifies or forges a health care directive or a revocation of the instrument;
(4) coerces or fraudulently induces another to execute a health care directive; or
(5) requires or prohibits the execution of a health care directive as a condition for being insured for or receiving all or some health care services. §
Subd. 2.Felony offenses.
Whoever commits an act prohibited under subdivision 1 is guilty of a felony if the act results in bodily harm to the principal or to the person who would have been a principal but for the unlawful act.
History:
1993 c 312 s 14; 1998 c 399 s 25
History: History: 1993 c 312 s 14; 1998 c 399 s 25