Article 835 — Failure to Make Compulsory Notifications.

Physicians, dentists, chemists, midwives, veterinary-surgeons and all persons officially authorized to attend patients, who fail to bring to the notice of the competent authority facts which, under law, they are obliged to notify, in particular with a view to preventing the spread of contagious diseases, drug-addiction, or epizootics, or activities of a criminal nature or dangerous for the community as a whole, are punishable with fine not exceeding five hundred Birr, or in more serious cases or cases of recidivism, with arrest.