Liability.

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A. No public agency or employee of a public agency shall be liable for the method of providing or failure to provide nine-one-one emergency telephone or communication service or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service or for the method of providing or failure to provide emergency response service.

B. No public agency or employee of a public agency shall have any special duty to any service user or other user of the nine-one-one emergency telephone system or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone system or any other telecommunication or communication system supplying or obligated to supply nine-one-one service.

C. A service provider of telecommunications or other communication services involved in providing nine-one-one emergency telephone service or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service shall not be liable for any claim, damage, or loss arising from the provision of nine-one-one emergency telephone service or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service unless the act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.

D. As used in this section:

1. "Employee" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 152 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

2. "Communication" means the transmission, conveyance, or routing of real-time, two-way voice communications to a point or between or among points by or through any electronic, radio, satellite, cable, optical, microwave, wireline, wireless, or other medium or method, regardless of the protocol used.

Added by Laws 1986, c. 230, § 7, emerg. eff. June 10, 1986. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 115, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2008, c. 138, § 2, emerg. eff. May 9, 2008.


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