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In Canada, good Samaritan acts fall under provincial jurisdiction. Each province has its own act, such as Ontario's [6] and British Columbia's [7] respective Good Samaritan Acts, Alberta's, Northwest Territories, Yukon's and Nunavut's Emergency Medical Aid Acts, [8] and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act. [9]
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source. [1]The Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act of 2013 would direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to implement a process to provide eligible organizations and individuals expedited access to federal lands to conduct good Samaritan search ...
Recolored all US states to green to indicated Good Samaritan laws but not duty to rescue laws, per talk page discussion: 18:08, 24 December 2023: 512 × 254 (1.26 MB) Zeldafanjtl: Split California and Mexico into separate objects: 08:43, 5 December 2022: 512 × 254 (1.24 MB) XciT: 06:38, 5 December 2022: 512 × 274 (607 KB) XciT: Uploaded own ...
Good Samaritan laws aren't uniform, though, and some give blanket amnesty for people calling for emergency medical services while others have more conditions the caller must meet.
The label may be apt in jurisdictions where the accused may be assigned some burden before a tribunal. However, in many jurisdictions, the entire burden to prove a crime is on the prosecution, which also must prove the absence of these defenses, where implicated. In other words, in many jurisdictions the absence of these so-called defenses is ...
Dec. 25—One of the country's largest faith-based medical cost-sharing groups has filed a lawsuit saying the state is violating its religious rights by attempting to prevent such entities from ...
Nov. 18—When the West Virginia Manufacturers Association pitched an idea for a new Hazmat Good Samaritan law to legislators on Monday, we thought that sounded like a pretty good idea. Once upon ...
The legislature also enacted a measure to curb the use of billboards on Illinois highways, which was amended several times thereafter, [3] and the state's first Good Samaritan law making physicians who render assistance in emergencies immune from civil liability.