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71 Law Enforcement and Public Office 525.05 <br />525.05 FAILURE 'TO REPORT A CRIME, INJURY OR KNOWLEDGE OF DEATH. <br />(a) No person, knowing that a felony has been or is being committed, shall <br />knowingly fail to report such information to law enforcement authorities. <br />(b) Except for conditions that are within the scope of subsection (e) hereof, no <br />physician, limited practitioner, nurse or person giving aid to a sick or injured person, <br />shall negligently fail to report to law enforcement authorities any gunshot or stab <br />wound treated or observed by him, or any serious physical harm to persons that he knows <br />or has reasonable cause to believe resulted from an offense of violence. <br />(c) No person who discovers the body or acquires the first knowledge of the death <br />of any person shall fail to report the death immediately to any physician whom the person <br />knows to be treating the deceased for a condition from which death at such time would <br />not be unexpected, or to a law enforcement officer, ambulance service, emergency <br />squad or the coroner in a political subdivision in which the body is discovered, the <br />death is believed to have occurred or knowledge concerning the death is obtained. <br />(d) No person shall fail to provide upon request of the person to whom he has made <br />a report required by subsection (c) hereof, or to any law enforcement officer who has <br />reasonable cause to assert the authority to investigate the .circumstances surrounding <br />the death, any facts within his knowledge that may.have a bearing on the investigation <br />of the death. <br />(e) (1) As used in this subsection (e), "burn injury" means any of the following: <br />A. Second or third degree burns; . <br />B. Any burns to the upper respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due to the <br />inhalation of super-heated air; <br />C. Any burn injury or wound that may result in death. <br />(2) No physician, nurse or limited practitioner who; outside a hospital, <br />sanitarium or other medical facility, attends or treats a person who has <br />sustained a burn injury inflicted by an explosion or other incendiary device, <br />or that shows evidence of having been, inflicted ~in a violent, malicious <br />or criminal manner, shall fail to report the burn injury immediately to the <br />local arson bureau, if there is such a bureau in the jurisdiction in which the <br />person is attended or treated, or otherwise to local law enforcement authorities. <br />(3) No manager, superintendent or other person in charge of a hospital, sanitar- <br />ium or other medical facility .in which a person is attended or treated for <br />any burn injury inflicted by an explosion or other incendiary device, or that <br />shows evidence of having been inflicted in a violent, malicious, or crime nal <br />manner, shall fail to report the burn injury immediately to the local arson <br />bureau, if there is such a bureau in the jurisdiction in which the pers~ n is <br />attended or treated, or otherwise to local law enforcement authorities. <br />1988 Replacement <br />