2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 143 - State Departments, Institutions, and Commissions.
§ 143-300.8. Defense of local sanitarians.
§ 143‑300.8. Defense of local sanitarians.
Any local health department sanitarian enforcing rules of the Commission for Public Health or of the Environmental Management Commission under the supervision of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources pursuant to G.S. 130A‑4 shall be defended by the Attorney General, subject to the provisions of G.S. 143‑300.4, and shall be protected from liability in accordance with the provisions of this Article in any civil or criminal action or proceeding brought against the sanitarian in his official or individual capacity, or both, on account of an act done or omission made in the scope and course of enforcing the rules of the Commission for Public Health or of the Environmental Management Commission. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall pay any judgment against the sanitarian, or any settlement made on his behalf, subject to the provisions of G.S. 143‑300.6. (1987, c. 654, s. 2; 1989, c. 727, s. 219(36); 1997‑443, s. 11A.96; 2006‑202, s. 7; 2007‑182, s. 2.)
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