{"":null}
Emergency Law Inventory | Full Law Text

Law Number

59 Okl. St. 518

Summary Title

Good Samaritan Law: Health Care Practitioner

Summary

A health care practitioner, who, in good faith, provides emergency care at the scene of an emergency will not be held legally responsible for acting or for failing to act. They will not be held legally responsible for providing good faith emergency care to a minor without consent of the minor’s parents or guardian. Generally, Good Samaritan laws only offer protection for those individuals who provide care during spontaneous emergencies unrelated to volunteer deployment.

Full Title

Emergency Care or Treatment—Immunity From Civil Damages or Criminal Prosecution

Full Text

No person who is a licensed practitioner of a healing art in the State of Oklahoma, who in good faith renders emergency care or treatment at the scene of the emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care or treatment, and no person who is a licensed practitioner of a healing art in the State of Oklahoma shall be prosecuted under the criminal statutes of this state for treatment of a minor without the consent of a minor’s parent or guardian when such treatment was performed under emergency conditions and in good faith.

Save as PDF Back to Laws