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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-607" 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">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Compensation” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Actual and necessary expenses that are incurred by a physician or volunteer in connection with the services provided or duties performed by the physician or volunteer for a sports program, and that are reimbursed to the physician or otherwise paid; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The listing without cost to the physician of the physician’s name or without cost to the volunteer of the volunteer’s name in a school or event publication.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Physician” means any physician, including a doctor of osteopathy, who is licensed to practice medicine in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Sports program” means a program or portion of a program of an institution of higher education or of a public or nonpublic school that is organized for intramural or interschool recreational purposes with activities that include basketball, baseball, football, soccer, track, or any other competitive sports.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>“Volunteer” means an officer, director, trustee, or other person who provides services or performs duties on behalf of a sports program without receiving compensation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A physician who voluntarily and without compensation provides services or performs duties as a physician for a sports program, whether or not the services are provided or the duties are performed at the request of the school’s or institution’s administration or a county board of education, is not liable for any damages for any act or omission resulting from the providing of the services or the performing of the duties unless the act or omission constitutes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Willful or wanton misconduct;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Gross negligence; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Intentionally tortious conduct.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>This section shall apply only to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Treatment at the site of the sports program;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Treatment at any practice or training for the sports program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Treatment administered during transportation to or from the sports program, practice, or training.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This section does not create, and may not be construed as creating, a new cause of action or substantive legal right against a physician or volunteer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This section does not affect, and may not be construed as affecting, any immunities from civil liability or defenses established by any other provision of the Code or available at common law to which a volunteer or physician may be entitled.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
