69-2-501. Jurisdiction and employee immunity.
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Effective 7/1/2017
69-2-501. Jurisdiction and employee immunity.
(1)In implementing 911 emergency service, any public agency and public safety agency shall cooperate in establishing and providing 911 emergency service.
(2)Any employee of any public safety agency which is a participant in 911 emergency service may respond and take any action to any call whether within or without the authorized territorial jurisdiction of the public safety agency.
(3)In response to an emergency communication, an employee of a public safety agency shall have the same immunity for any acts performed in the line of duty outside the public safety agency's authorized jurisdiction as the public safety agency employee has within the public safety agency's authorized jurisdiction.
(4)No cause of action is created by any incorrect dispatch or response by any system or any public safety agency or by reason of elapsed response time.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 430 , 2017 General Session