2012 District of Columbia Code
Section 48-931.01

Physician privilege

Information communicated to a physician in an effort unlawfully to procure controlled substances, or unlawfully to procure the administration of any such controlled substances, shall not be deemed a privileged communication.

CREDIT(S)

(June 20, 1938, 52 Stat. 795, ch. 532, § 20; Aug. 5, 1981, D.C. Law 4-29, § 604(b)(4), 28 DCR 3081.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 33-566.
1973 Ed., § 33-420.
Legislative History of Laws
For legislative history of D.C. Law 4-29, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 48-901.02.
Editor's Notes
Subsection (b) of former § 33-521 was redesignated to be § 33-566 [1981 Ed.] upon the enactment of D.C. Law 4-29.

Current through September 13, 2012

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