PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 561

emergency medical technician-paramedic is entitled to qualified immunity from
civil liability for providing emergency assistance or medical care under certain
circumstances; repealing a certain provision retiring paramedics to undergo
making passage of a certain Act contingent on the passage of legislation creating a
State licensing procedure for paramedics; changing a reference from "emergency
medical technician" to "emergency medical technician paramedic"; providing for
the effective date of this Act; and generally relating to qualified immunity from civil
liability for providing emergency medical care and emergency medical
technician-paramedics.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article—Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Section 5-309

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1995 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)
BY repealing

Chapter 248 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1983
Section 2

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article—Courts and Judicial-Proceedings

5-309.

(a) A person described in subsection (b) of this section is not civilly liable for any
act or omission in giving any assistance or medical care; if:

(1) The act or omission is not one of gross negligence;

(2) The assistance or medical care is provided without fee or other
compensation; and

(3) The assistance or medical care is provided:

At the scene of an emergency;
(ii) In transit to a medical facility, or

(iii) Through communications with personnel providing emergency

assistance.

(b) Subsection (a) of this section applies to the following:

(1) An individual who is licensed by this State to provide medical care;

(2) A member of any State, county, municipal, or volunteer fire department;
ambulance and rescue squad or law enforcement agency or of the National Ski Patrol
System, or a corporate fire department responding to a call outside of its corporate
premises, if the member:

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