(a) It shall be unlawful for any physician or surgeon practicing within the City, who attends or has under his or her charge or care any patient or other person suffering from any gunshot wound, powder burn, or any other injury arising from the discharge of a firearm or an injury caused by a knife, an ice pick, or any other sharp or pointed instrument which he or she believes to be intentionally inflicted or caused by the patient's own act or by the act of another or any other injury which he or she has reason to believe involves a criminal act, to fail to report forthwith to the police department the name of such patient or other person and all facts appertaining to such case within the knowledge of such physician or surgeon.

(b) Any physician who makes a report pursuant to this subsection (a) of this section shall not be subject to the physician-patient relationship described in C.R.S. § 13-90-107(1)(d) as to the medical examination and diagnosis. Such physician may be examined as a witness, but not as to any statements made by the patient that are the subject matter of C.R.S. § 13-90-107(1)(d). (Code 1979, § 27-26; Ord. No. 95-52, exhibit A (§ 27-26), 9-11-1995)