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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-603" title_number="5" title_name="Limitations, Prohibited Actions, and Immunities" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Immunities and Prohibited Actions -- Health and Public Safety">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The act or omission is not one of gross negligence;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The assistance or medical care is provided without fee or other compensation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The assistance or medical care is provided:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>At the scene of an emergency;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In transit to a medical facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Through communications with personnel providing emergency assistance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subsection (a) of this section applies to the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual who is licensed by this State to provide medical care;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A member of any State, county, municipal, or volunteer fire department, ambulance and rescue squad, or law enforcement agency, the National Ski Patrol System, or a corporate fire department responding to a call outside of its corporate premises, if the member:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Has completed an American Red Cross course in advanced first aid and has a current card showing that status;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Has completed an equivalent of an American Red Cross course in advanced first aid, as determined by the Secretary of Health;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Is certified or licensed by this State as an emergency medical services provider; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Is administering medications or treatment approved for use in response to an apparent drug overdose and the member is:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Licensed or certified as an emergency medical services provider by the State Emergency Medical Services Board and authorized to administer the medications and treatment under protocols established by the State Emergency Medical Services Board;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Certified to administer the medications and treatment under protocols established by the Secretary of Health; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>Certified to administer the medications and treatment under protocols established by the Maryland State Police Medical Director;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A volunteer fire department or ambulance and rescue squad whose members have immunity; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A corporation when its fire department personnel are immune under item (2) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual who is not covered otherwise by this section is not civilly liable for any act or omission in providing assistance or medical aid to a victim at the scene of an emergency, if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The assistance or aid is provided in a reasonably prudent manner;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The assistance or aid is provided without fee or other compensation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The individual relinquishes care of the victim when someone who is licensed or certified by this State to provide medical care or services becomes available to take responsibility.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The immunity from civil liability under paragraph (1) of this subsection applies to an individual when administering naloxone in response to a known or suspected drug overdose.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
