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Iowa Code § 144A.10 (2026)

Penalties

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1. Any person who willfully conceals, withholds, cancels, destroys, alters, defaces, or obliterates the declaration, out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order, or out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate identifier of another without the declarant’s or patient’s consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the declaration or out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order of another is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

2. Any person who falsifies or forges the declaration or out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate order of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of or delivery of a revocation as provided in section 144A.4 or 144A.7A, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures, is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. 85 Acts, ch 3, §11; 2002 Acts, ch 1061, §9 \n Tue Dec 09 22:26:30 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 144A (27, 0) §144A.11, LIFE-SUSTAINING PROCEDURES 6 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 2015–2015 · leading case: Sanon v. City of Pella, 865 N.W.2d 506 (Iowa 2015).
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Sanon v. City of Pella, 865 N.W.2d 506 (Iowa 2015). “§ 144A.10 (providing that a statutory violation is a serious misdemeanor).”
Roselene Sanon & Nemi Sanon, Individually & as Administrators of the Est. of Nehmson D. Sanon, & Paulette Cezil Pogue, Individually & as Adm'r of the Est. of Gael Cezil Hrispin v. City of Pella (Iowa 2015). “These examples reinforce our conclusion that by 2009 the legislature had enacted separate penalty provisions for each chapter administered by the department, which, like section 135I.”
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