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California Government Code Section 179.7

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(a) Notwithstanding Article 6 of the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact, as set forth in Section 179.5, the state shall
indemnify and make whole any officer or employee who is a resident of
California, or his or her heirs, if the officer or employee is
injured or killed in another state when rendering aid pursuant to the
compact, as if the act or acts occurred in California, less any
recovery obtained under the provisions of Article 6 of the Emergency
Management Assistance Compact.
   (b) Local government or special district personnel who are
officially deployed under the provisions of the Emergency Management
Assistance Compact pursuant to an assignment of the Office of
Emergency Services shall be defended by the Attorney General or other
legal counsel provided by the state, and shall be indemnified
subject to the same conditions and limitations applicable to state
employees.

Last modified: January 12, 2009