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Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 78.053: LIABILITY.
Where this section sits in the code
- CIVIL PRACTICE AND REMEDIES CODE
- TITLE 4. LIABILITY IN TORT
- CHAPTER 78. CERTAIN FIRE FIGHTERS AND FIRE-FIGHTING ENTITIES
- SUBCHAPTER B. MARINE FIRE-FIGHTING SERVICES
(a) A nonprofit fire department is liable for damages described by Section 78.052 only to the extent that the governmental unit with which the nonprofit fire department is contracting would be liable under Chapter 101.
(b) Section 101.106 applies to a claimant in a suit against a fire fighter as if the fire fighter were an employee of a governmental unit and the nonprofit fire department were a governmental unit.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
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