District Of Columbia § 22-3020.53 - Defense to non-reporting.
Full text of District Of Columbia D.C. Code § 22-3020.53 — Defense to non-reporting., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 22-3020.53. Defense to non-reporting.
22-3020.53Any survivor of domestic violence may use such domestic violence as a defense to his or her failure to report under this subchapter.
For the purposes of this section, the term “domestic violence” means intimate partner violence, as defined in , and intrafamily violence, as defined in .
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