155.80 Penalties.
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155.80 Penalties.
(1)Whoever directly or indirectly coerces, threatens or intimidates an individual so as to cause the individual to execute a power of attorney for health care instrument shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both.
(2)Whoever intentionally conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, damages or destroys a power of attorney for health care instrument without the consent of the principal for that instrument may be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than 30 days or both.
(3)Whoever knowingly conceals, falsifies or forges a power of attorney for health care instrument with intent to create the false impression that a person other than the health care agent has been so designated shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
(4)Whoever intentionally withholds actual knowledge of the revocation of a power of attorney for health care or of the falsification or forgery of a power of attorney for health care instrument shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
(5)Whoever acts or attempts to act as a health care agent based on a power of attorney for health care that the individual knows has been executed without the voluntary consent of the principal, that the individual knows has been forged or substantially altered without the authorization of the principal, or that the individual knows has been revoked, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.