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Idaho Code § 5-330: Immunity of persons giving emergency first aid from damage claim.

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  1. TITLE 5 PROCEEDINGS IN CIVIL ACTIONS IN COURTS OF RECORD
  2. CHAPTER 3 PARTIES TO ACTIONS

That no action shall lie or be maintained for civil damages in any court of this state against any person or persons, or group of persons, who in good faith and without compensation, being at, or stopping at the scene of an accident or emergency, including a mental health or suicidal crisis, offers and administers emergency first aid, emergency medical attention, or emergency psychological attention, including responding to suicidal thoughts, to any person or persons injured in such accident or emergency unless it can be shown that the person or persons offering or administering emergency first aid, emergency medical attention, or emergency psychological attention is guilty of gross negligence in the care or treatment of said injured person or persons or has treated them in a grossly negligent manner. The immunity described herein shall cease upon delivery of the injured person to either a generally recognized hospital for treatment of ill or injured persons, or upon assumption of treatment in the office or facility of any person undertaking to treat said injured person or persons, or upon delivery of said injured person or persons into custody of an ambulance attendant.

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