§587D-2 - Unharmed newborn children left at hospitals, fire stations, or police stations, or with emergency services personnel; avoidance of prosecution.
[§587D-2] Unharmed newborn children left at
hospitals, fire stations, or police stations, or with emergency services personnel; avoidance of prosecution. A
person may leave a newborn child with the personnel of a hospital, fire
station, or police station, or emergency services personnel without being
subject to prosecution for abandonment of a child pursuant to section 709‑902;
provided that:
(1) The newborn child was born within seventy-two
hours of being left at the hospital, fire station, or police station, or with
emergency services personnel as determined within a reasonable degree of
medical certainty; and
(2) The newborn child is left in an unharmed
condition. [L Sp 2007, c 7, pt of §2]