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New York Penal Law Section 265.25 - Certain Wounds To Be Reported.

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    § 265.25 Certain wounds to be reported.
    Every  case of a bullet wound, gunshot wound, powder burn or any other
  injury arising from or caused by the discharge of a gun or firearm,  and
  every  case  of a wound which is likely to or may result in death and is
  actually or apparently inflicted by a knife, icepick or other  sharp  or
  pointed  instrument, shall be reported at once to the police authorities
  of the city, town or village where the person reporting is  located  by:
  (a)  the  physician  attending or treating the case; or (b) the manager,
  superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such case is  treated
  in  a  hospital,  sanitarium  or other institution. Failure to make such
  report is a class A misdemeanor. This subdivision  shall  not  apply  to
  such  wounds, burns or injuries received by a member of the armed forces
  of the United States or the state of  New  York  while  engaged  in  the
  actual performance of duty.

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