{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-144a.10","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 144A.10","heading":"Penalties.","body":"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.\n2. 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.","path":["Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH (Ch. 123 - 158)","Chapter 144A - LIFE-SUSTAINING PROCEDURES"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/144A.10.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:03Z","sha256":"ae4cef10089c6ce8e9f22a48e53aa3329925d584f3d58a26704ace8f591874f8","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-144a.9","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-144a.11"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}