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Emergency Law Inventory | Full Law Text

Law Number

44.095 R.S.Mo. 5

Summary Title

Liability and Workers' Compensation: Mutual Aid Agreement with Kansas

Summary

A member of a political subdivision or public safety agency, who responds to a mutual aid agreement, will be considered to be an employee of the responding political subdivision and is entitled to workers' compensation and legal protections.

Full Title

Mutual aid agreement with Kansas - definitions - requests for assistance - immunity - certification by director, notice to revisor of statutes

Full Text

5. For the purposes of liability, all members of any political subdivision or public safety agency responding under operational control of the requesting political subdivision or public safety agency are deemed employees of such responding political subdivision or public safety agency and are subject to the liability and workers’ compensation provisions provided to them as employees of their respective political subdivision or public safety agency. Qualified immunity, sovereign immunity, official immunity, and the public duty rule shall apply to the provisions of this section as interpreted by the federal and state courts of the responding agency.

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