Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes

23 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 6314 (2026)

Photographs, medical tests and X-rays of child subject to report.

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§ 6314. Photographs, medical tests and X-rays of child subject to report.

A person or official required to report cases of suspected child abuse may take or cause to be taken photographs of the child who is subject to a report and, if clinically indicated, cause to be performed a radiological examination and other medical tests on the child. Medical summaries or reports of the photographs, X-rays and relevant medical tests taken shall be sent to the county agency at the time the written report is sent or within 48 hours after a report is made by electronic technologies or as soon thereafter as possible. The county agency shall have access to actual photographs or duplicates and X-rays and may obtain them or duplicates of them upon request. Medical summaries or reports of the photographs, X-rays and relevant medical tests shall be made available to law enforcement officials in the course of investigating cases pursuant to section 6340(a)(9) or (10) (relating to release of information in confidential reports).

(Dec. 16, 1994, P.L.1292, No.151, eff. July 1, 1995; Apr. 15, 2014, P.L.417, No.33, eff. Dec. 31, 2014)

Cross References. Section 6314 is referred to in sections 6313, 6318 of this title.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2010–2010 · leading case: Northumberland Cnty. Child. & Youth Servs. v. Dep't of Pub. Welfare, 2 A.3d 794 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2010).

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Northumberland Cnty. Child. & Youth Servs. v. Dep't of Pub. Welfare, 2 A.3d 794 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2010). “” Section 6314, as amended, 23 Pa.C.S. § 6314. When these provisions are construed in conjunction with the confidentiality provision in Section 6339 of the Law *801 and the exception for a subject of the report in Section 6340(b), the Law clearly permits the subject of the…”

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