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SECTION 5-54-20.1

§ 5-54-20.1 Immunity from liability forgratuitous emergency assistance. – No person licensed under the provisions of this chapter or members of the sameprofession licensed to practice in other states of the United States whovoluntarily and gratuitously, and other than in the ordinary course of his orher employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance to a person inneed shall be liable for civil damages for any personal injuries resulting fromacts or omissions by those persons in rendering the emergency care which mayconstitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section shall notapply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, wanton negligence orwhen the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, physician's office orother health care delivery entity where those services are normally rendered.

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SECTION 5-54-20.1

§ 5-54-20.1 Immunity from liability forgratuitous emergency assistance. – No person licensed under the provisions of this chapter or members of the sameprofession licensed to practice in other states of the United States whovoluntarily and gratuitously, and other than in the ordinary course of his orher employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance to a person inneed shall be liable for civil damages for any personal injuries resulting fromacts or omissions by those persons in rendering the emergency care which mayconstitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section shall notapply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, wanton negligence orwhen the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, physician's office orother health care delivery entity where those services are normally rendered.

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SECTION 5-54-20.1

§ 5-54-20.1 Immunity from liability forgratuitous emergency assistance. – No person licensed under the provisions of this chapter or members of the sameprofession licensed to practice in other states of the United States whovoluntarily and gratuitously, and other than in the ordinary course of his orher employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance to a person inneed shall be liable for civil damages for any personal injuries resulting fromacts or omissions by those persons in rendering the emergency care which mayconstitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section shall notapply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, wanton negligence orwhen the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, physician's office orother health care delivery entity where those services are normally rendered.