California Penal Code

§ 11160

PEN § 11160 Effective Jan 1, 2022Title 1 · Part 4 · Ch. 2 · Art. 2

Statute text

(a)A health practitioner, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11162.5, employed by a health facility, clinic, physician’s office, local or state public health department, local government agency, or a clinic or other type of facility operated by a local or state public health department who, in the health practitioner’s professional capacity or within the scope of the health practitioner’s employment, provides medical services for a physical condition to a patient whom the health practitioner knows or reasonably suspects is a person described as follows, shall immediately make a report in accordance with subdivision (b):

(1)A person suffering from a wound or other physical injury inflicted by the person’s own act or inflicted by another where the injury is by means of a firearm.

(2)A person suffering from a wound or other physical injury inflicted upon the person where the injury is the result of assaultive or abusive conduct.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 626, Sec. 63. (AB 1171) Effective January 1, 2022.