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Law Number

R.R.S. Neb. 35-107

Summary Title

Liability: Volunteer Fire or Emergency Department Personnel

Summary

An individual, who is a member of a volunteer fire department or a volunteer first-aid, rescue, or emergency squad and who, in good faith, provides services as a member of a volunteer fire department, first-aid, rescue, or emergency squad, will not be held legally responsible for acting or for failing to act. They can be held legally responsible if they cause injury or damage while operating a motor vehicle, or if they act with extreme carelessness or intent to cause harm.

Full Title

Volunteer department; emergency first aid; members; immunity from liability; when

Full Text

No member of a volunteer fire department or of a volunteer first-aid, rescue, or emergency squad which provides emergency public first-aid and rescue services shall be liable in any civil action to respond in damages as a result of his acts of commission or omission arising out of and in the course of his rendering in good faith any such services as such member but such immunity from liability shall not extend to the operation of any motor vehicle in connection with such services. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to grant any such immunity to any person causing damage by his willful or wanton act of commission or omission.

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