Georgia § 46-5-131 - Exemptions from liability in operation of 9-1-1 system.

§ 46-5-131. Exemptions from liability in operation of 9-1-1 system.

Whether participating in a state-wide emergency 9-1-1 system or an emergency 9-1-1 system serving one or more local governments, neither the state nor the authority nor any local government of the state nor any emergency 9-1-1 system provider or service supplier or its employees, directors, officers, contractors, and agents, except in cases of wanton and willful misconduct or bad faith, shall be liable for death or injury to any person or for damage to property as a result of either developing, adopting, establishing, participating in, implementing, maintaining, or carrying out duties involved in operating the emergency 9-1-1 system or in the identification of the telephone number, address, or name associated with any person accessing an emergency 9-1-1 system. No local government of the State of Georgia shall be required to release, indemnify, defend, or hold harmless any emergency 9-1-1 system provider from any loss, claim, demand, suit, or other action or any liability whatsoever which arises out of subsection (a) of this Code section, unless the local government agrees or has agreed to assume such obligations. (Code 1981, § 46-5-131 , enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 652, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 179, § 2; Ga. L. 2005, p. 660, § 9/HB 470; Ga. L. 2007, p. 318, § 2/HB 394; Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 2-10/HB 751.) The 2005 amendment, effective July 1, 2005, substituted "9-1-1" for "'911'" throughout this Code section. The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, in subsection (a), substituted "or service supplier or" for a comma near the beginning, substituted "any" for "the" near the middle, and substituted "emergency 9-1-1" for "9-1-1 emergency telephone" near the end. The 2018 amendment, effective January 1, 2019, in subsection (a), inserted "the authority nor" near the middle and inserted "contractors," in the middle. See Editor's notes for applicability. Cross references. - Limitation of liability of persons rendering emergency care generally, § 51-1-29 . Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2018, p. 689, § 4-1(b)/HB 751, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "The provisions of this Act shall not in any manner diminish, extinguish, reduce, or affect any cause of action for audits, services, or the recovery of funds from service providers which may have existed prior to January 1, 2019. Any such cause of action is expressly preserved."