Deadly force – Immunity from personal liability.

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Any officer or enlisted person of the state military forces acting in the line of duty shall be immune from personal liability for any acts that include the use of deadly force in self-defense or in defense of another person from what the member reasonably believes is the imminent use of unlawful deadly force.

Added by Laws 1935, p. 92, § 8, emerg. eff. April 19, 1935. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 96, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2019, c. 408, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 2019; Laws 2021, c. 12, § 7, emerg. eff. April 13, 2021.


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