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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="14-207" title_number="14" title_name="Emergency Management" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Civil Relief During Emergency Periods">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The period during which a person is a person in emergency management service or person suffering injury or damage is not included in computing any period of limitations applicable to bringing an action by or against:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the person in emergency management service;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the person suffering injury or damage; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>an heir, executor, administrator, or assign of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the person in emergency management service; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the person suffering injury or damage.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Paragraph (1) of this subsection applies whether the cause of action accrues before the person becomes, or during the period that the person is, a person in emergency management service or person suffering injury or damage.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>If a person in emergency management service is reported missing, the person is presumed to continue to be a person in emergency management service until the person is accounted for.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If a person suffering injury or damage is reported missing, the person is presumed to continue to be a person suffering injury or damage until the person is accounted for.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A period of limitations that begins or ends with the death of a person in emergency management service or person suffering injury or damage does not begin or end until the death:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is in fact confirmed; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is found by a court.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
