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2004 SESSION
HB 534 Roadway litter p/u; civil immunity of officials & vol. who participate in programs for probationers.
Introduced by: Jackie T. Stump | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED:
Civil immunity; litter pick up by probationers and persons on community service. Provides civil immunity for probation officers; court personnel; county, city and town personnel; any other public officials; and private volunteers who participate in a program in which persons on community service or persons on probation are ordered as a condition of probation or community service to pick up litter along a section of public roadway or waterway. The immunity protects the specified persons from liability for injury to the persons on probation or community service, in the absence of willful misconduct. The bill provides that it shall not be interpreted to grant any immunity to any driver transporting the probationers or persons on community service, or any motorist, who, by his negligence, may injure such probationer or person on community service. This bill is identical to SB 72.
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:
Civil immunity; litter pick up by probationers and persons on community service. Provides civil immunity for judges; probation officers; court personnel; county, city and town personnel; any other public officials; and private volunteers who participate in a program in which persons on community service or persons on probation are ordered as a condition of probation or community service to pick up litter along a section of public roadway or waterway. The immunity protects the specified persons from liability for injury to the persons on probation or community service, in the absence of willful misconduct. The bill provides that it shall not be interpreted to grant any immunity to any driver transporting the probationers or persons on community service, or any motorist, who, by his negligence, may injure such probationer or person on community service.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Civil immunity. Provides civil immunity for public officials and private volunteers who participate in a program in which persons on community service or persons on probation who are ordered as a condition of probation or community service to pick up litter along a section of public roadway or waterway. The immunity protects the public persons and private volunteers from liability for injury to the persons on probation or community service, unless there is willful misconduct on the part of the public person or private volunteer. The bill provides that it shall not be interpreted to grant any immunity to a motorist who, by his negligence, may injure such probationer or person on community service.