2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 83 - Particular Rights and Immunities
8331 - Medical good Samaritan civil immunity.

                               SUBCHAPTER C
                           IMMUNITIES GENERALLY

     Sec.
     8331.  Medical good Samaritan civil immunity.
     8331.1. Veterinary good Samaritan civil immunity.
     8331.2. Good Samaritan civil immunity for use of automated
            external defibrillator.
     8331.3. Criminal victim aid good Samaritan civil immunity.
     8332.  Nonmedical good Samaritan civil immunity.
     8332.1. Manager, coach, umpire or referee and nonprofit
            association negligence standard.
     8332.2. Officer, director or trustee of nonprofit organization
            negligence standard.
     8332.3. Volunteer firefighter civil immunity.
     8332.4. Volunteer-in-public-service negligence standard.
     8332.5. Corporate representatives.
     8332.6. Antidrug and town-watch volunteer civil immunity.
     8332.7. Immunity of State parole officers.
     8332.8. Immunity of county probation officers.
     8333.  Body fluid and tissue limited civil immunity.
     8334.  Civil immunity in mass immunization projects.
     8335.  Damages for conversion of property of fluctuating value.
     8336.  Civil immunity for assistance upon request in incidents
            involving the transportation of hazardous substances.
     8337.  Civil immunity of school officers or employees relating
            to drug or alcohol abuse.
     8337.1. Civil immunity of school officers or employees relating
            to emergency care, first aid and rescue.
     8338.  Liability for damages from donated food and grocery
            products.
     8338.1. Liability for damages from donated vehicles or
            equipment to volunteer fire companies.
     8339.  Agricultural immunity.
     8339.1. Railroad civil immunity.
     8340.  Immunity of program administrators and supervisors.
     8340.1. Employer immunity from liability for disclosure of
            information regarding former or current employees.
     § 8331.  Medical good Samaritan civil immunity.
        (a)  General rule.--Any physician or any other practitioner
     of the healing arts or any registered nurse, licensed by any
     state, who happens by chance upon the scene of an emergency or
     who arrives on the scene of an emergency by reason of serving on
     an emergency call panel or similar committee of a county medical
     society or who is called to the scene of an emergency by the
     police or other duly constituted officers of a government unit
     or who is present when an emergency occurs and who, in good
     faith, renders emergency care at the scene of the emergency,
     shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any
     acts or omissions by such physician or practitioner or
     registered nurse in rendering the emergency care, except any
     acts or omissions intentionally designed to harm or any grossly
     negligent acts or omissions which result in harm to the person
     receiving emergency care.
        (b)  Definition.--As used in this section "good faith" shall
     include, but is not limited to, a reasonable opinion that the
     immediacy of the situation is such that the rendering of care
     should not be postponed until the patient is hospitalized.