(a) When any person is brought or comes to any hospital in the urban county for treatment of gunshot wounds, cuts or fractures which, from the nature of same, may have been caused by the commission of a crime of violence, or if said person is the victim of poisoning, misuse or abuse of drugs or narcotics, or other injuries or disorders, it shall be the duty of such hospital to immediately notify the division of police of the presence of such person in said hospital and of the nature of the injury or disorder from which said patient is suffering.
(b) In the event that any person suffering from such injury or disorder shall thereafter die while a patient in any hospital in the urban county, it shall be the duty of such, hospital to immediately notify the division of police of the urban county of such death.
(c) When any doctor shall treat a person in the urban county suffering from such injury or disorder, it shall be the duty of the said doctor to immediately notify the division of police of the urban county of the name and whereabouts of such patient, and the nature of the injury or disorder; however, when such treatment takes place in the urban county hospital, it shall be the duty of the hospital to make such report and it shall not be necessary for the doctor to make same.
(d) When any person in the urban county who is a patient of any doctor, as aforesaid, and who is not confined in any hospital in the urban county, shall die, it shall be the duty of said doctor to report said death immediately to the division of police of the urban county.
(e) Violation of any of the provisions of this section will subject the violator to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or up to six (6) months in jail, or both.
(Ord. No. 214-70, § 1, 9-17-70)