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SB 72 Roadway litter pick-up; civil immunity of officials who participate in programs for probationers.

Introduced by: Phillip P. Puckett | 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 HB 534.

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Civil immunity; litter pick-up. Provides civil immunity for probation officers, court personnel, county, city and town personnel and other public officials who participate in a program where persons on probation are ordered as a condition of probation to pick up litter along a section of public roadway or waterway, unless there is willful misconduct. The bill also provides that it shall not be interpreted to grant any immunity to a motorist who, by his negligence, may injure such probationer.

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Civil immunity. Provides civil immunity for public officials who participate in a program where persons on probation are ordered as a condition of probation to pick up litter along a section of public roadway or waterway, unless there is willful misconduct. The bill also provides that it shall not be interpreted to grant any immunity to a motorist who, by his negligence, may injure such probationer.