{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-311.641","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 311.641","heading":"Civil liability and criminal penalty for falsification or destruction of","body":"advance directive.\n(1) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the\nadvance directive of another without the grantor's consent or who falsifie s or forges\na revocation of the advance directive of another, thereby causing life -prolonging\ntreatment to be utilized in contravention of the previously expressed intent of the\npatient shall be civilly liable.\n(2) Any person who falsifies or forges the ad vance directive of another, or willfully\nconceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of an advance\ndirective, with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life -prolonging\ntreatment, contrary to the wishes of the grantor, and there by causes life-prolonging\ntreatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened, shall be guilty of a\nClass B felony.","path":["KRS Chapter 311"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=30579","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:58:05Z","sha256":"5d227ff3a3a68eec0a31e4b8efd508e39aa98bd248d65e30ffef6afda234cddf","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-311.640","next":"us-ky/krs-311.642"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}