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71 Law Enforcement and Public Office 525.05 <br />(b) It is an affirmative defense to a charge under this section when both of the <br />following apoly: <br />(1) The pending prosecution involved is for a violation of Sections 545.05, <br />545.07, 545.09 or 545.10(b)(2), or Ohio R.C. 2913.02, 2913.11, 2913.21(B)(2) <br />or 2913.47, of which the actor under this section was the victim. <br />(2) The thing of value demanded, accepted or agreed to be accepted, in <br />consideration of abandoning or agreeing to abandon the prosecution, did <br />not exceed an amount that the actor reasonably believed due him as <br />restitution for the loss caused him by the offense. <br />(c) When a prosecuting witness abandons or agrees to abandon a prosecution under <br />subsection (b) hereof, the abandonment or agreement in no way binds the State or <br />Municipality to abandoning the prosecution. <br />(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of compounding a crime, a misdemeanor <br />of the first degree. (ORC 2921.21) <br />525.05 FAILURE TO REPORT A CRIME, INJURY OR KNOVJLEDGE 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 5tab <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 whoni the person <br />knows to be treating the deceased for a condition from which death at such tinie would <br />not be unexpected, or to a law enforcement officer, ambulance service9 emergency <br />squad or the coroner in a political subdivision in which the body is discoverecl, 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 tlie <br />1994 Replacement