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135.147 IMMUNITY FOR EMERGENCY AID -- EXCEPTIONS.
1. A person, corporation, or other legal entity, or an employee
or agent of such person, corporation, or entity, who, during a public
health disaster, in good faith and at the request of or under the
direction of the department or the department of public defense
renders emergency care or assistance to a victim of the public health
disaster shall not be liable for civil damages for causing the death
of or injury to a person, or for damage to property, unless such acts
or omissions constitute recklessness.
2. The immunities provided in this section shall not apply to any
person, corporation, or other legal entity, or an employee or agent
of such person, corporation, or entity, whose act or omission caused
in whole or in part the public health disaster and who would
otherwise be liable therefor. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 159, §21
