54 - Personal liability of heads of agencies.

§  54. Personal liability of heads of agencies. No head of any agency,  department, bureau, or office of a county shall be liable to respond  in  damages  to the county or to any other person for any act or omission of  any employee of the  county  employed  within  the  agency,  department,  bureau,  or office of which he is such head. Any lawful claims which but  for this section would  be  claims  against  such  head  of  an  agency,  department,  bureau, or office shall be lawful claims against the county  and shall be deemed  to  be  the  liability  of  the  county.    Nothing  contained  herein,  however,  shall be deemed to relieve the head of any  agency, department, bureau, or office of liability to the county  or  to  any  other  person  for his own act or omission to act, nor be deemed to  impose any new liability upon the county for any act or omission of such  head of any agency, department, bureau, or office to  which  the  county  was not lawfully subject prior to the taking effect of this act.