2010 New York Code
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title P - OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY
Article 265 - (265.00 - 265.40) FIREARMS AND OTHER DANGEROUS WEAPONS
265.26 - Burn injury and wounds to be reported.

§ 265.26 Burn injury and wounds to be reported.
    Every  case  of  a  burn  injury  or wound, where the victim sustained
  second or third degree burns to five percent or more of the body  and/or
  any  burns  to the upper respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due to the
  inhalation of super-heated air, and every case of a burn injury or wound
  which is likely to or may result in death, shall be reported at once  to
  the  office of fire prevention and control. The state fire administrator
  shall accept the report and notify the proper  investigatory  agency.  A
  written  report  shall also be provided to the office of fire prevention
  and control within seventy-two hours. The report shall be  made  by  (a)
  the  physician  attending  or  treating  the  case;  or (b) the manager,
  superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such case is  treated
  in a hospital, sanitarium, institution or other medical facility.
    The intentional failure to make such report is a class A misdemeanor.

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