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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 25. FIRE PROTECTION AND SAFETY · Chapter 6. MUTUAL AID RESOURCE PACTS

25-6-5. Liabilities, privileges, and immunities of pacts, members, and personnel.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    There shall be no liability imposed by law on a pact or any member jurisdiction or its personnel for failure to respond for the purpose of extinguishing or controlling any fire or other immediate response emergency. This immunity is not exclusive of other similar immunities granted by statute or common law.#

  2. (b)

    Any firefighter or other person who is an employee or member of a jurisdiction of a pact while engaged in a duty or activity in connection with this chapter or pursuant to orders or instructions of his superiors, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, exemptions, and immunities to which he would be entitled if the duty or activity were performed within that firefighter’s or other person’s home jurisdiction.#

  3. (c)

    The loss of men or equipment while in operation under a pact agreement shall be borne as if the loss occurred in the man’s or equipment’s home jurisdiction.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1976, p. 742, § 5.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t24-t26-(v21)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V21, 2023 edition, page 120; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 8eab3bec6887.