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525.05 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 72 (4) No person who is required to report any burn injury under subsection (e)(2) or (3) hereof shall fail to file, within three working days after attending or treating the victim, a written report of the burn injury with the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The report shall be made on a form provided by the State Fire Marshal. (5) Anyone participating in the making of reports under subsection (e) hereof or anyone participating in a judicial proceeding resulting from the reports shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability that otherwise might be incurred or imposed as a result of such actions. Notwithstanding Ohio R. C. 4731.22, the physician-patient relationship is not a ground . for excluding evidence regarding a person's burn injury or the cause ~ the burn injury. in any judicial proceeding resulting from a report submitted pursuant to subsection (e) hereof. (f) Subsection (a) or (d) hereof does not require disclosure of information, when any of the following applies (1) The information is privileged by reason of the relationship between attorney and client, doctor and patient, licensed psychologist. or licensed school psychologist and client, clergyman or rabbi or minister or priest and any person communicating information confidentially to him for a religious counseling purpose in his professional character, or husband and wife. (2) The information would tend to incriminate a .member of the actor's immediate family. (3) Disclosure of the information would amount to revealing a news source, privileged under Ohio R. C. 2739.04 or 2739.12. '(4) Disclosure of the information would amount 'to disclosure by an ordained clergyman of an organized religious body of a confidential communication made to him in his capacity as such by a person seeking his aid or counsel. (5) Disclosure would amount to revealing information acquired by the .actor in the course of his duties in connection with a bona fide program of treatment or services for drug dependent persons or persons in danger of drug depen- dente, which program is maintained or conducted by a hospital, clinic, person, agency or organization registered pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5122.51. (6) Disclosure would amount to revealing information acquired by the actor in the course of his duties in connection with a bona fide program for providing .counseling services to victims of crimes that are violations of Ohio R. C. 2907.02, 2907.05 or 2907.12. As used in this subsection, "counseling services" include services provided in an informal setting by a person who, by education or experience, is competent to provided such services. (g) No disclosure of information pursuant to this section gives rise to any liability or recrimination for a breach of privilege or confidence. 1988 Replacement