{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-70.122.090","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 70.122.090","heading":"Criminal conduct—Penalties.","body":"(1) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the directive of another without such declarer's consent is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.\n(2) Any person who falsifies or forges the directive of another, or willfully conceals or withholds personal knowledge of a revocation as provided in RCW 70.122.040 with the intent to cause a withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment contrary to the wishes of the declarer, and thereby, because of any such act, directly causes life-sustaining treatment to be withheld or withdrawn and death to thereby be hastened, shall be subject to prosecution for murder in the first degree as defined in RCW 9A.32.030.","path":["Title 70","Chapter 70.122"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=70.122.090","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:52:45Z","sha256":"de6c982eab41882bb38cef9aae1302adf729fdedf74dcaa21ec5fb51fca90132","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-70.122.080","next":"us-wa/rcw-70.122.100"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}