587D-1 Definitions.
§587D-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Department” means the department of human services. “Emergency services personnel” shall have the same meaning as defined in section 78-52. “Firefighter” means a member of a fire department whose principal duties are to prevent and fight fires. “Fire station” means a building for […]
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 […]
587D-3 Safe place for newborns.
§587D-3 Safe place for newborns. (a) The personnel of a hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel may receive a newborn child; provided that 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 […]
587D-4 Reporting.
§587D-4 Reporting. Within twenty-four hours of receiving an unharmed newborn child under section 587D-3, the personnel of the hospital, fire station, or police station, or emergency services personnel shall inform the department that a newborn child has been left at the premises; provided that the department shall not be informed until the person leaving the […]
587D-5 Immunity.
§587D-5 Immunity. (a) A hospital with responsibility for performing duties under this chapter, any health care provider, or hospital personnel working at the hospital, a fire station and any firefighter or fire personnel, a police station and any police officer or police personnel, and emergency services personnel acting in good faith in receiving a newborn […]
587D-6 Authority to reunite; placement.
§587D-6 Authority to reunite; placement. (a) Upon receiving custody of a newborn child who has been discharged from a hospital that received the newborn child pursuant to section 587D-3, the department may reunite the newborn child with the newborn’s parents. (b) The department may: (1) Search for relatives of the newborn child as a placement […]
587D-7 Status of child.
§587D-7 Status of child. For purposes of proceedings under this chapter and adoption proceedings, a newborn child left at a hospital, fire station, or police station, or with emergency services personnel under section 587D-2 shall be considered an abandoned child. [L Sp 2007, c 7, pt of §2]