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20-13-908. Penalties.
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20-13-908. Penalties.
(a) A physician who willfully fails to transfer a patient in accordance with § 20-13-904 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) A person who purposely conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another without the consent of the possessor or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(c) A person who falsifies or forges the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another or purposely conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of Do Not Resuscitate Identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures is guilty of a Class D felony.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-13-908
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20-13-908. Penalties.
(a) A physician who willfully fails to transfer a patient in accordance with § 20-13-904 is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) A person who purposely conceals, cancels, defaces, or obliterates the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another without the consent of the possessor or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(c) A person who falsifies or forges the Do Not Resuscitate Identification of another or purposely conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation of Do Not Resuscitate Identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures is guilty of a Class D felony.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-13-904. Adherence to Do Not Resuscitate Protocol — Transfer of patients.
(a) Emergency medical services personnel other than physicians shall comply with the Do Not Resuscitate Protocol when presented with either Do Not Resuscitate Identification approved by the Department of Health, an oral Do Not Resuscitate Order issued directly by a physician, or a written Do Not Resuscitate Order entered on a form prescribed by the department.
(b) An attending physician or a healthcare facility that receives a patient from emergency medical services with a valid Do Not Resuscitate Identification which the patient or his or her healthcare proxy does not remand by written or oral statement and that is unwilling or unable to comply with a Do Not Resuscitate Order shall take all reasonable steps to transfer that person possessing Do Not Resuscitate Identification to another physician or to a healthcare facility in which the Do Not Resuscitate Order will be followed.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-13-904
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-13-904. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.