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| | | An Act To Protect Health Care Practitioners Responding |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §816, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 487, §11, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 1. For private institutions. Any private institution, its | employees or agents shall be | | the extent provided in Title 14, chapter 741, as if that | | institution were a state agency and its employees and agents were | | state employees, for any acts taken to provide for the | | confinement or restraint of a person committed pursuant to this | | chapter or for participating in reporting under this chapter, or | | for engaging in any prescribed care within the meaning of this | | chapter in support of the State's response to a declared extreme | | public health emergency in accordance with the provisions of this | | chapter and Title 37-B, chapter 13, subchapter 2. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 24 MRSA §2904, as repealed and replaced by PL 1995, c. 625, | | Pt. C, §3, is repealed and the following enacted in its place: |
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| | | §2904.__Immunity from civil liability for volunteer activities |
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| | | 1.__Health care practitioners.__Notwithstanding any | | inconsistent provision of any public or private and special law, | | an individual is not liable for an injury or death arising from |
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| | | medical services provided as described in this subsection unless | | the injury or death was caused willfully, wantonly or recklessly | | or by gross negligence of the individual if that individual is: |
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