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Title 8 — HEALTH AND SAFETY

San Bernardino Municipal Code Ch. 8.09 Treatment of Wounded Persons

San Bernardino Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · San Bernardino

Cite as: San Bernardino Municipal Code Chapter 8.09 · Text as of 2026-10-04

§ 8.09.010 NOTICE TO CHIEF OF POLICE WHEN.

Every physician, surgeon, osteopath or other person within the corporate limits of the city who dresses or treats or prescribes for any wound of any human being or human beings who has been wounded, which such wound may have been caused or made by a sharp or blunt instrument or by a bullet or bullets from a gun or pistol, shall immediately notify the Chief of Police or other police officer of the city that he or she has so dressed, treated or prescribed for such wound of a human being.

(Ord. 625, passed 12-21-16)

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§ 8.09.020 FAILURE TO NOTIFY AN INFRACTION.

Every such physician, surgeon, osteopath or other person who fails to so notify the Chief of Police or other police officer of the city that he or she has so dressed, treated or prescribed for such wound of a human being is guilty of an infraction, which, upon conviction thereof, is punishable in accordance with the provisions of § 1.12.010.

(Ord. 625, passed 12-21-16; Ord. MC-460, passed 5-15-1985)

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