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Tennessee Good
Samaritan Law
Tennessee Code Annotated
63-6-218.
(a) This section shall be known and cited as the “Good Samaritan Law.”
(b) Any person, including those licensed to practice medicine and
surgery and including any person licensed or certified to render service
ancillary thereto, or any member of a volunteer first aid, rescue or
emergency squad that provides emergency public first aid and rescue
services, who in good faith:
(1) Renders emergency care at the scene of an accident, medical
emergency and/or disaster, while en route from such scene to a medical
facility and while assisting medical personnel at the receiving medical
facility, including use of an automated external defibrillator, to the
victim or victims thereof without making any direct charge for the
emergency care; or
(2) Participates or assists in rendering emergency care, including use
of an automated external defibrillator, to persons attending or
participating in performances, exhibitions, banquets, sporting events,
religious or other gatherings open to the general public, with or
without an admission charge, whether or not such emergency care is made
available as a service, planned in advance by the promoter of the event
and/or any other person or association, shall not be liable to such
victims or persons receiving emergency care for any civil damages as a
result of any act or omission by such person in rendering the emergency
care, or as a result of any act or failure to act to provide or arrange
for further medical treatment or care for the injured person, except
such damages as may result from the gross negligence of the person
rendering such emergency care.
(c) A receiving medical facility shall not be liable for any civil
damages as a result of any act or omission on the part of any member of
a volunteer first aid, rescue or emergency squad that provides emergency
public first aid and rescue services while such person is assisting
medical personnel at the receiving medical facility.
(d) If:
(1) A volunteer fire squad is organized by a private company for the
protection of the plant and grounds of such company;
(2) Such squad is willing to respond and does respond to calls to
provide fire protection for residents living within a six (6) mile
radius of the county surrounding such plant; and
(3) The plant is located in a county that does not otherwise provide
fire protection to such residents;
then the members of such volunteer fire squad, while providing fire
protection within such area outside the plant, shall be liable to suit
under the provisions of the Governmental Tort Liability Act, compiled in
title 29, chapter 20, part 2.
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