Emergency Rescue Personnel Law and Legal Definition
Emergency rescue personnel refer to any person who is an officer, employee or member of a fire department or fire protection or firefighting agency of the government. Law explicitly immunizes from liability emergency rescue personnel who render medical and/or non medical care.
The following is an example of a state law defining emergency rescue personnel:
Emergency rescue personnel means any person who is an officer, employee, or member of a fire department or fire protection or firefighting agency of the federal government, the State of California, a city, county, city and county, district, or other public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of this state, or of a private fire department, whether that person is a volunteer or partly paid or fully paid, while s/he is actually engaged in providing emergency services. [Cal Health & Saf Code § 1799.107].
Legal Definition list
- Emergency Quota Act
- Emergency Public Information
- Emergency Protective Orders [EPO]
- Emergency Preparedness
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986
- Emergency Rescue Personnel
- Emergency Responder [Transportation]
- Emergency Response Providers
- Emergency Services
- Emergency Shelter [HUD]
- Emergency Statutes
Related Legal Terms
- Adverse Personnel Action
- Agency Designee [Administrative Personnel]
- Agricultural Disease Emergency
- Air Search and Rescue Team
- Alternate Non-Emergency Services Provider
- Appropriate Local Emergency Authority
- Armed Response Personnel [Energy]
- Band [Administrative Personnel]
- Bargaining Obligation Dispute [Administrative Personnel]
- Career Group [Administrative Personnel]
