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The 1997 Florida Statutes

Title XXIX
PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 400
Nursing Homes And Related Health Care Facilities

400.4174  Reports of abuse in facilities.--When an employee, volunteer, administrator, or owner of a facility has a confirmed report of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation, as defined in s. 415.102, or child abuse or neglect, as defined in 1s. 415.503, and the protective investigator knows that the individual is an employee, volunteer, administrator, or owner of a facility, the agency shall be notified of the confirmed report.

History.--ss. 15, 25, ch. 89-294; ss. 11, 38, 39, ch. 93-216.

1Note.--Section 415.503 no longer defines the term "confirmed report."