Vermont § 1604 - Liability—Article IV

§ 1604. Liability—Article IV

• (a) Whenever the officers or employees of any party state are rendering outside aid pursuant
  to the request of another party state under this compact, the officers or employees
  of such state shall, under the direction of the authorities of the state to which
  they are rendering aid, have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities
  as comparable officers and employees of the state to which they are rendering aid. (b) No party state or its officers or employees rendering outside aid pursuant to this
  compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission on their part while so engaged,
  or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection
  therewith. (c) All liability that may arise either under the laws of the requesting state or under
  the laws of the aiding state or under the laws of a third state, on account of or
  in connection with a request for aid, shall be assumed and borne by the requesting
  state. (d) Any party state rendering outside aid to cope with a radiation incident shall be reimbursed
  by the party state receiving such aid for any loss or damage to, or expense incurred
  in the operation of any equipment answering a request for aid, and for the cost of
  all materials, transportation, and maintenance of officers, employees and equipment
  incurred in connection with such request: provided that nothing herein contained shall
  prevent any assisting party state from assuming such loss, damage, expense, or other
  cost or from loaning such equipment or from donating such services to the receiving
  party state without charge or cost. (e) Each party state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits
  to injured officers and employees and the representatives of deceased officers and
  employees in case officers or employees sustain injuries or are killed while rendering
  outside aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as
  if the injury or death were sustained within the state for or in which the officer
  or employee was regularly employed. (Added 1967, No. 26, § 1, eff. March 14, 1967.)