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2021 Florida Statutes
Title XLVI - Crimes
Chapter 790 - Weapons and Firearms
790.24 - Report of Medical Treatment of Certain Wounds; Penalty for Failure to Report.
Universal Citation: FL Stat § 790.24 (2021)
790.24 Report of medical treatment of certain wounds; penalty for failure to report.—Any physician, nurse, or employee thereof and any employee of a hospital, sanitarium, clinic, or nursing home knowingly treating any person suffering from a gunshot wound or life-threatening injury indicating an act of violence, or receiving a request for such treatment, shall report the same immediately to the sheriff’s department of the county in which said treatment is administered or request therefor received. This section does not affect any requirement that a person has to report abuse pursuant to chapter 39 or chapter 415. Any such person willfully failing to report such treatment or request therefor is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.—s. 1, ch. 59-35; s. 755, ch. 71-136; s. 1, ch. 99-235.