NRS 450B.580 - Unlawful acts; penalty.

NV Rev Stat § 450B.580 (2019) (N/A)

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1. It is unlawful for:

(a) A person who administers emergency medical services to fail willfully to transfer a qualified patient in accordance with the provisions of NRS 450B.550.

(b) A person purposely to conceal, cancel, deface or obliterate a do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient, unless it is done in compliance with a request of the qualified patient or a parent or legal guardian of the qualified patient to remove or destroy the do-not-resuscitate identification pursuant to NRS 450B.525 or 450B.530.

(c) A person to falsify or forge the do-not-resuscitate identification of a qualified patient or purposely to conceal or withhold personal knowledge of the revocation of a do-not-resuscitate identification with the intent to cause the use, withholding or withdrawal of life-resuscitating treatment.

2. A person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 291; A 2001, 819)

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