Bill Text: NY S07616 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7616 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to burn injury reporting.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-11 - REFERRED TO CODES [S07616 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07616-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7616
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA  -- (at request of the Division of Homeland
          Security and Emergency Services) -- read twice  and  ordered  printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to burn injury reporting
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 265.26 of the penal law, as added by chapter 201 of
     2  the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 265.26 Burn injury and wounds to be reported.
     4    Every case of a burn injury  or  wound,  where  the  victim  sustained
     5  second  or third degree burns to five percent or more of the body and/or
     6  any burns to the upper respiratory tract or laryngeal edema due  to  the
     7  inhalation  of  super-heated  air,  every burn injury or wound caused by
     8  possession or use of a sparkling device, fireworks  or  dangerous  fire-
     9  works,  and  every  case of a burn injury or wound which is likely to or
    10  may result in death, shall be reported at once to  the  office  of  fire
    11  prevention  and  control.  The state fire administrator shall accept the
    12  report and notify the proper  investigatory  agency.  A  written  report
    13  shall  also  be  provided  to  the office of fire prevention and control
    14  within seventy-two hours. The report shall be made by (a) the  physician
    15  attending or treating the case; [or] (b) the coroner or medical examiner
    16  investigating  the  death  of  a  person or persons; or (c) the manager,
    17  superintendent or other person in charge, whenever such case is  treated
    18  in a hospital, sanitarium, institution or other medical facility.
    19    The intentional failure to make such report is a class A misdemeanor.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14306-01-6