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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-614" 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>This section applies to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual licensed by the State to provide veterinary care, a student of veterinary medicine who works under the responsible direct supervision of a veterinary practitioner as defined by § 2–301(c) of the Agriculture Article, or a veterinary technician registered by the State under § 2–309 of the Agriculture Article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>An individual who is licensed by this State to provide medical care;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A member of any State, county, municipal, or volunteer fire department, ambulance and rescue squad, or law enforcement agency, or a corporate fire department;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A volunteer fire department or ambulance and rescue squad whose members have immunity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A corporation when its fire department personnel are immune under item (3) of this subsection; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>An individual employed or designated by a local government as an animal control officer while responding in the individual’s official capacity to a call in the community.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person is not civilly liable for any act or omission in giving any veterinary aid, care, or assistance to an animal where the owner or custodian of the animal is not available to grant permission if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The act or omission is not one of gross negligence;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The veterinary aid, care, or assistance is provided without fee or other compensation from the owner or custodian of the animal; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The veterinary aid, care, or assistance is provided:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>At the scene of an emergency;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>In transit to a veterinary facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Through communications with licensed veterinary personnel providing emergency veterinary assistance.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
