Any licensed surgeon, medical doctor, osteopathic physician, optometrist, dentist, intern or registered nurse who, from attending or examining an individual, concludes that such individual is blind or visually impaired to a material and uncorrected extent, and in good faith participates in the making of written report of said conclusion to the Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired of the State Department of Rehabilitation Services, shall have immunity from liability, civil and criminal, for so reporting.
Added by Laws 1976, c. 50, § 2, emerg. eff. April 12, 1976. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 107, § 5, eff. July 1, 1998; Laws 2019, c. 51, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.