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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor 2295
Article 43 - Health
132.
(a) A person licensed by the State of Maryland to
provide medical care, who renders medical aid, care, or
assistance for which he charges no fee or compensation:
(1) at the scene of an emergency; (2) in transit to
medical facilities; or (3) through communications with
personnel rendering emergency assistance is not liable
for any civil damages as the result of any professional
act or omission by him not amounting to gross negligence.
(b) A member of any State, county, municipal or
volunteer fire department, ambulance and rescue squad, or
law-enforcement agency who has completed an American Red
Cross course in advanced first aid or its equivalent and
possesses a current card indicating that status as
determined by the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene,
or is certified by the State of Maryland as an emergency
medical technician or cardiac rescue technician has the
same immunity provided in subsection (a).
(c) Members and employees of federal, State, county,
or city governments, hospitals, emergency medical service
councils and agencies which operate as nonprofit groups
that provide support to the emergency medical system
through the provision of care, equipment, facilities, or
consultant support without charging the emergency victim
a fee for the service provided are not liable for any
civil damages resulting from acts or omissions not
amounting to gross negligence.
(d) A person not included in the above categories,
who without compensation renders emergency assistance at
the scene of an emergency, is not liable for acts
committed or omitted, provided the person rendering the
aid acts in a reasonably prudent manner and relinquishes
direction of care of the injured person when a person
licensed or certified by the State of Maryland to provide
medical care or services is in a position to assume
responsibility for care of the injured person.
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1977.
Approved May 17, 1977.
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CHAPTER 464
(House Bill 676)
AN ACT concerning
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