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KSA 021-063-0019 – Unlawful failure to report a wound | Kansas Law

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KSA 021-063-0019 – Unlawful failure to report a wound

Kansas Statutes Annotated § KSA 021-063-0019

Statute Summary

21-6319.Unlawful failure to report a wound.(a) Unlawful failure to report a wound is, with no requirement of a culpable mental state, the failure by an attending physician or other person to report such person's treatment of any of the following wounds, to the office of the chief of police of the city or the office of the sheriff of the county in which such treatment took place: (1) Any bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or other injury arising from or caused by the discharge of a firearm

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