(A) General.
(1) Hospitals. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of every hospital, or the person actively in charge thereof, to report to the Coroner and the Police Department, within 15 minutes thereafter, the death of any person within the hospital resulting from accidental or violent means.
(2) Physicians. It shall be the duty of every practicing physician attending a case within the city, where death occurs as a result of accidental or violent means, to report the fact of the death to the Coroner and the Police Department within 15 minutes after information of the death is received by the physician.
(3) Undertakers. It shall be the duty of every person operating an undertaking establishment, by whatever name called, to report to the Coroner and the Police Department, within 15 minutes after information of the death by the undertaking establishment, where death was occasioned by accidental or violent means.
(Prior Code, § 13-1)
(B) Hospitals to report to police upon receipt of certain patients. It shall be the duty of every person operating or maintaining a hospital within the city, or any person in charge of the same, to report to the Police Department, within 30 minutes after receiving, at the hospital, any patient suffering from injuries sustained in an accident or by assault, or from self-inflicted wounds, giving in the report the name of the patient, the patient’s approximate age, sex and residence, the extent of injuries, as near as ascertainable, the person bringing the patient to the hospital, the name of the attending physician and any information which may be obtained as to the facts surrounding the injury to the patient.
(Prior Code, § 13-2)
(C) Accidents for which city may be liable. The Chief of Police, immediately upon the happening of any accident which may result in injury to person or damage to property within the city, for which the city may be held liable, shall make, or cause to be made, a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the same and shall forthwith report, in writing, to the City Manager and City Attorney the names of the parties injured and/or location of the property damaged, the names of the witnesses to the injury and/or damage and their places of residence, the substance of any statement that the Chief is able to obtain from each one of them, the place of the accident, the cause, in the Chief’s opinion, of the same, the date thereof and any other information which may throw light thereon.
(Prior Code, § 13-3)
Penalty, see § 130.99