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525.05 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE 72 local arson bureau, if there is such a bureau in the jurisdiction in which the person is attended or treated, or otherwise to local law enforcement; authorities. (3) No manager, superintendent or other person in charge of a hospital, sanitar- ium or other medical facility in which a person is attended or treated for any burn injury inflicted by an explosion or other incendiary device, or that shows evidence of having been inflicted in a violent, malicious, or crimi nal manner, shall fail to report the burn injury immediately to the local arson bureau, if there is such a bureau in the jurisdiction in which the pers> n is attended or treated, or otherwise to local law enforcement authorities. (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 of 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, husband and wife, or a communications assistant and those who are a party to a telecommunications relay service call. . (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 ig 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 dependence, which program is maintained or conducted by a hospital, clinic, person, agency or organization certified pursuant to Ohio R. C. 3793.06. (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" includes services provided in an informal setting by a person who, by education or experience, is competent to provide such services. 1994 Replacement