2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-21). Reports of physical defects of children.

      Sec. 19a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-21). Reports of physical defects of children. Each person licensed to practice medicine, surgery, midwifery, chiropractic, natureopathy, podiatry or nursing or to use any other means or agencies to treat, prescribe for, heal or otherwise alleviate deformity, ailment, disease or any other form of human ills, who has professional knowledge that any child under five years of age has any physical defect shall, within forty-eight hours from the time of acquiring such knowledge, mail to the Department of Public Health a report, stating the name and address of the child, the name and address of the child's parents or guardians, the nature of the physical defect and such other information as may reasonably be required by the department. The department shall prepare and furnish suitable blanks in duplicate for such reports, shall keep each report on file for at least six years from the receipt thereof and shall furnish a copy thereof to the State Board of Education within ten days.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3825; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 99-102, S. 16.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 replaced department of health with department of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-21 transferred to Sec. 19a-53 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced department of health services with department of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathy and made technical changes.