§ 27-1. Fire fighters, emergency medical technicians, and equipment may in emergencies go or be sent beyon...
Whenever the necessity arises during any actual or potential emergency resulting from fire, personal injury, or other public disaster, the fire fighters or emergency medical technicians of any county, city or town may, together with all necessary equipment, lawfully go or be sent beyond the territorial limits of such county, city or town to any point within or without the Commonwealth, to assist in meeting such emergency.
In such event the acts performed for such purpose by such fire fighters or emergency medical technicians, and the expenditures made for such purpose by such county, city or town, shall be deemed conclusively to be for a public and governmental purpose and all of the immunities from liability enjoyed by a county, city or town when acting through its fire fighters or emergency medical technicians for a public or governmental purpose within its territorial limits shall be enjoyed by it to the same extent when such county, city or town is so acting, under this section or under other lawful authority, beyond its territorial limits.
The fire fighters or emergency medical technicians of any county, city or town, when acting hereunder, or under other lawful authority, beyond the territorial limits of such county, city or town, shall have all the immunities from liability and exemptions from laws, ordinances and regulations, and shall have all of the pension, relief, disability, workers' compensation and other benefits, enjoyed by them while performing their respective duties.
(1942, p. 376; Michie Code 1942, § 3032c; 1966, c. 134; 1977, c. 326; 1995, c. 461.)
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