702.18  Serious injury.

"Serious injury" means disabling mental illness, or bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ, and includes but is not limited to skull fractures, rib fractures, and metaphyseal fractures of the long bones of children under the age of four years.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 2577; R60, § 4200; C73, § 3857; C97, § 4752; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12928; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 693.1; C79, 81, § 702.18]

Section History: Recent form

  94 Acts, ch 1172, §41

Internal References

  Referred to in § 147.111


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