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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="5-634.1" 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>“Person” includes the State, any county, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the State, or any of their units, or an individual, a receiver, a trustee, a guardian, an executor, an administrator, a fiduciary, or a representative of any kind, or any partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, or other entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Pet item” means any apparently fit tangible pet supply that meets all quality and labeling standards imposed by federal, State, and local laws and regulations even if the item may not be readily marketable due to appearance, age, freshness, grade, surplus, or other condition.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Pet item” includes apparently fit commercial feed as defined in § 6–101 of the Agriculture Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless the act or omission amounts to gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct, a person is not civilly liable for any act or omission that affects the nature, age, condition, or packaging of a donated pet item if the person in good faith:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Donated the pet item for use or distribution by a nonprofit corporation, organization, or association or a unit of State or local government; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Dispensed the donated pet item on behalf of a nonprofit corporation, organization, or association or a unit of State or local government.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
