53-2-509 - Personnel responding to requests for assistance.
53-2-509. Personnel responding to requests for assistance.
(1) Each person or entity holding a license, certificate, or other permit evidencingqualification in a professional, mechanical, or other skill and responding to a request from arequesting political subdivision shall, while providing assistance during a declared emergency orduring an authorized drill or exercise, be considered to be licensed, certified, or permitted in therequesting political subdivision, except as limited by the chief executive officer of the requestingpolitical subdivision.
(2) Each law enforcement officer rendering aid as provided in this part under theauthority of a state of emergency declared by the governor, whether inside or outside the officer'sjurisdiction, shall have all law enforcement powers and the same privileges and immunities thatthe officer has in the officer's own jurisdiction.
(3) Each employee of a responding political subdivision responding to a request by orgiving assistance to a requesting political subdivision as provided in this part:
(a) is entitled to:
(i) all applicable workers compensation benefits for injury or death occurring as a resultof the employee's participation in the response or assistance; and
(ii) any additional state or federal benefits available for line of duty injury or death; and
(b) is, for purposes of liability, considered to be an employee of the requesting politicalsubdivision.
(4) Each responding political subdivision and its employees are immune from liabilityarising out of their actions in responding to a request from a requesting political subdivision tothe extent provided in Section 63G-7-201.
Amended by Chapter 382, 2008 General Session